decry

Significat (Anglès)

  1. (transitive) To denounce as harmful.
  2. (transitive) To blame for ills.

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/dɪˈkɹaɪ/
Etimologia (Anglès)

C. 1600, from Middle French decrier (“to denigrate; depreciate”), from Old French descrier (“to shout”) (modern décrier). Doublet of descry. The pejorative meaning had not been present in the Middle English loan, but it was present in the French word from at least the 13th century, with a meaning of "to denigrate; depreciate; to announce the depreciation or suppression of a currency", presumably from the interpretation of de- as meaning "down, inferior".

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