| 单词 | detract |
| 释义 | detract (once / 1530 pages) v If you detract from something — like an achievement or an opinion or an object — you take away some of its value or diminish it. That dent in the door of your car may detract from its overall value. The verb detract comes from the Latin word detrahere, meaning “draw away from,” or “take down.” If you detract from someone’s credibility, you reduce — or take down — that person's worth. When you make valid points opposing an argument a politician is making, you detract from her platform. Detract can also describe drawing attention away from something. If the politician then makes a public display of her humanity, she's trying to detract attention away from your arguments. WORD FAMILYdetract: detracted, detracting, detraction, detractive, detractor, detracts+/detraction: detractions/detractor: detractors USAGE EXAMPLESNone of these shortcomings detract from what is a fascinating work of revisited history with all the narrative traction of a good mystery. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) If a hamlet detracted from his composition, he moved it. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) Indeed, these efforts at modern scientific explanations detract from the richness of Lamb's cultural explorations of discovery and knowledge. Nature(Dec 13, 2016) v take away a part from; diminish His bad manners detract from his good character Syn|Hyper take away bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down cut down on; make a reduction in |
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