deprecate -
To belittle; depreciate.
Synonyms: depreciate
Usage: The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts.
inveigh -
To give vent to angry disapproval; protest vehemently.
Synonyms: rail
Usage: The detective had, indeed, good reasons to inveigh against the
bad luck which pursued him.
assuage -
To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe.
Usage: Food, however, became scarce, and I often spent the whole day
searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger.
calumniate -
To make maliciously or knowingly false statements about.
Usage: Ah Comte de la Fere, said a calm voice, though hoarse with
running, "is it your habit to calumniate the absent?
raze - To level to
the ground; demolish.
Usage: They would raze our cities, leaving not one stone upon another.
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