infamize
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infamize (third-person singular simple present infamizes, present participle infamizing, simple past and past participle infamized)
- (transitive) To make infamous; to defame or smear.
- 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Zapolya:
- Or is some knot of riotous slanderers leagued
To infamize the name of the King's brother
With a lie black as Hell?