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Meaning detract meaning

What does detract mean?

detract

— verb (= take away) take away a part from; diminish His bad manners detract from his good character

Synonyms detract synonyms

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detract English » English

subtract take away derogate deduct decrease abate take off diminish belittle abridge write off weaken understate trim back trim throttle thin taper subduct strip slim down slim slenderize slander ridicule remove reduction reduce rationalize rationalise limit lessen hold down factor out expense emaciate eliminate downsize dock divest divert one’s attention distract dispossess disparage dismount derograte derogate from deplete delete degrade

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Social behavior Behavior Do good to Meddle

Spoil

Conjugation detract conjugation

How do you conjugate detract?

detract · verb

Examples detract examples

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You can wipe out the odd civilisation, enslave the occasional culture, but it still won't detract from the basic fundamental truth of your own impotence.
We're painting the building at the moment. but that doesn't detract from its charm.
Without wishing to detract from your award-winning performances. may I be so bold as to inquire what you hope to achieve by this prank?
Why assimilate a species that would detract from perfection?
You will not detract from her schoolwork.
I think a bigger alliance is what all six of us have created so I don't think that the smaller ones detract from how we feel about the six of. all of us together.
Anything else might make me angry and detract from the pleasant, cordial side you see now.
Now, does that detract from what you two had together?
Because it would detract from the gravity of my FBI presence.
I don't know- deflect, detract, get the conversation off her and me and us.
I was trying to detract from that god awful sweater she knitted me.
I don't want this to detract from what we really need to think about today.
Yeah and they detract from real things, like Jesus.
If you detract from her wedding I will sneak into your room and cut off your favorite appendage.
For a good poem would detract from its reciter.
It could be part of an ingenious master plan to detract me and my men from Wameru.
We can not detract from Sherwood.
It would detract from the game.
Don't let your brother's award detract from your day.
Your garment du jour, while extremely magnificent, is so colourful, I am afraid it will dominate the photograph and detract from your natural beauty.
Now I realize that this may be a disappointment to you but I would ask you to remember that it is just a measurement and in no way should detract from the beauty of, or indeed your affection for this.
Don't let that detract from what I just said.
But it didn't detract from the tribute given to her.
BUT THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY DETRACT.
Mrs von Ribeck's disease or other disabilities show. that the issues. detract too much from her duties as a doctor to perform properly.
Do you not think a zoo would detract from the value of the property in Upton village? No, not at all.
You'd detract from my embarrassment at least.
Neither will detract from the other. - Really?
And I assure you that my glory will not detract from your own.
I don't want anything to detract from the dress.

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The fact that it provoked debate and dispute does not detract from the conviction shared by old and new member states that they had an obligation to rebuild the Continent after 40 years of division.
The corporatist structure by itself does not detract from performance.
But that does not necessarily detract from his genius.
And, while the subsidies may improve the quality of life for ordinary people in some respects, they also detract from it by suppressing domestic consumption.

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