denigrate

• vt.信用を落とす；黒くする；汚点をつける

de-、下向きの、強調する。-語源はnegroと同じ。派生は中傷、中傷。

denigrate

denigrate: [16] To denigrate people is literally to ‘blacken’ them. The word comes from Latin dēnigrāre ‘blacken’, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and niger ‘black’. This adjective, which is of unknown origin, also produced French noir ‘black’ and Italian nero ‘black’, and is the source (via Spanish negro) of English negro [16] and the now taboo nigger [18]. Denigrate originally meant ‘physically turn something black’ as well as the metaphorical ‘defame, belittle’: ‘This lotion will denigrate the hairs of hoary heads’, Richard Tomlinson, Renodaeus’ Medicinal dispensatory 1657.
=> negro, nigger

denigrate (v.)

1520s, from Latin denigratus, past participle of denigrare "to blacken, defame," from de- "completely" (see de-) + nigr-, stem of niger "black" (see Negro). which is of unknown origin. "Apparently disused in 18th c. and revived in 19th c." [OED]. Related: Denigrated; denigrating.

1. I didn 't intend to denigrate her achievements.

私は彼女の成績を貶めようとしたのではありません。

2.To assert this to denigrate the effectiveness of the police.

これを堅持することは、警察の仕事の能力をけなすことだ。

3.It was unkind to denigrate her achievement.

彼女の業績をけなすのは冷酷なことだ。

4.The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that the State can ban pornographic images which " denigrate women ".

カナダ最高裁判所は、「女性を侮辱する」ポルノ画像を禁止する権利があると判断した。The amendment prohibits obscene or indecent materials which denigrate the objects or beliefs of a particular religion.

この改正案は、ある宗教教物や信仰を貶める猥褻な内容や下品な内容を禁止する。