English-Spanish translations for discredit

• desacreditar
  Oponerse de esta manera a ello equivale a desacreditar la intervención. Intervention will be discredited if this failure to act persists.
  Esta moción no es nada más que una estratagema para desacreditar a la Comisión Europea. This motion is nothing but a ploy to discredit the European Commission.
  Esa conducta no hace más que desacreditar las normas. Such behaviour simply discredits the rules.
• descalificar
• descrédito
  Corremos el peligro de que el Parlamento caiga en el descrédito. We are running the risk of discrediting ourselves.
  Sería un descrédito para ellos. That would be to their discredit.
  Este caso aislado no puede conducir al descrédito de todos los actores de la ayuda humanitaria. This isolated case must not therefore be allowed to discredit all humanitarian aid actors.
• descreer

Definition of discredit

• To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable
• Discrediting or disbelieving
• A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution
• The state of being discredited or disbelieved
• A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach

Examples

• The candidate tried to discredit his opponent.
• The evidence would tend to discredit such a theory.
• Later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

Related words

• discreditor
• discreditable
• undiscreditable
• discredit#Inglese|discredit