discredit vs lower

discredit

verb
  • To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable. 

noun
  • A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach. 

  • A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution. 

  • The state of being discredited or disbelieved. 

  • Discrediting or disbelieving. 

lower

verb
  • (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity. 

  • To decrease in value, amount, etc. 

  • To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program. 

  • To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of 

  • To bring down; to humble 

  • To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down 

  • To reduce the height of 

  • To depress as to direction 

  • to pull down 

  • To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc. 

  • To make less elevated 

  • To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease 

adj
  • bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object 

  • Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly. 

  • older 

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