deglorify
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deglorify (third-person singular simple present deglorifies, present participle deglorifying, simple past and past participle deglorified)
- To remove glory from; to cause something to be less glorious
- 2023, Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Copycat Crime:
- One way to minimize or mitigate the copycat effect is to deemphasize the perpetrator and deglorify the violence in real and fictional stories.