- to denigrate: to run down somebody, saying to him/her he/she's a bad person, at a lower level where he/she could be to stay. - to blacken: to make something black and It may mean, I suppose, to make somebody very upset - to disparge: I think it's like the first one but it can also mean to despise - to besmirch: I don't really know anything about this word anybody else? bye
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