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detraho
detraho
Latin
Verb
dētrahō (present infinitive dētrahere, perfect active dētraxī, supine dētractum); third conjugation
- I draw, pull, take or drag off, down or away; remove, detach, withdraw.
 - I take away, deprive, diminish, strip, rob.
 - I pull down, drag down, lower.
 - I withhold, divert.
 - I withdraw, take away; lower in estimation, disparage, detract from.
 
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- English: detract
 - French: détracter, détracteur, détractrice
 - Italian: detrarre
 - Portuguese: detrair
 - Spanish: detraer
 
References
- detraho in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
 - detraho in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
 - Félix Gaffiot (1934), “detraho”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
 -  Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: de gloria, fama alicuius detrahere
 
 - to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: de gloria, fama alicuius detrahere