поро́чить — meaning in English

English meaning

• backbite verb To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
• badmouth verb To criticize or speak ill of someone, often unfairly or behind their back.
• defame verb To damage someone's reputation by making false or malicious statements about them.
• slander noun A false spoken statement that damages someone's reputation.
• tarnish noun A dull discoloured film that forms on the surface of a metal, especially one exposed to air.
• vilipend verb To treat (something) as inconsequential or worthless; to despise, to look down on.

Senses

поро́чить is used for these senses in English:

• backbite To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
• badmouth (informal, transitive) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
• defame To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage. [from 4th c.]
• tarnish (transitive) To compromise, damage, soil, or sully.
• vilipend (transitive, dated, formal) To express a disparaging opinion of; to slander or vilify.

backbite — full definition

1. verb To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
2. verb To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
3. verb To speak badly of an absent individual.

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