infamize

English

Etymology

infamy +‎ -ize

Verb

infamize (third-person singular simple present infamizes, present participle infamizing, simple past and past participle infamized)

  1. (transitive) To make infamous; to defame or smear.
    • 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Zapolya:
      Or is some knot of riotous slanderers leagued
      To infamize the name of the King's brother
      With a lie black as Hell?

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