detract
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
take away a part from; diminish
His bad manners detract from his good character
Types & categories
- reduce hypernym
Related & opposite
- detraction derivation
- detractor derivation
- detractive derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | detraction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | detractor |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | detractive |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | reduce |