| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | tra·duce |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  tr -d s , -dys |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: tra·duced, tra·duc·ing, tra·duc·es
To cause humiliation or disgrace to by making malicious and false statements. See synonyms at malign. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin tr d cere, to lead as a spectacle, dishonor : tr-, trns-, trans- + dcere, to lead; see deuk- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | tra·ducement —NOUN
tra·ducer —NOUN
tra·ducing·ly —ADVERB
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