| Denigrate 1. (v. t.) To blacken thoroughly; to make very black. 2. (v. t.) Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. Thesaurus Entries asperse, bedarken, besmirch, bespatter, black, blacken, blackwash, blot, blotch, call names, calumniate, charcoal, cork, darken, defame, defile, deprecate, depreciate, despise, dinge, discommend, disdain, disparage, dispraise, disvalue, ebonize, engage in personalities, heap dirt upon, hold in contempt, ink, libel, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrify, oversmoke, put down, revile, ridicule, scandalize, shade, shadow, slander, smear, smirch, smoke, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soot, stigmatize, sully, tarnish, tear down, throw mud at, traduce, vilify |