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Webster 1913 Edition


Infamize

In′fa-mize

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Infamized
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Infamizing
.]
To make infamous; to defame.
[R.]
Coleridge.

Definition 2024


infamize

infamize

English

Verb

infamize (third-person singular simple present infamizes, present participle infamizing, simple past and past participle infamized)

  1. (transitive) To make infamous; to defame or smear.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      Or is some knot of riotous slanderers leagued
      To infamize the name of the King's brother
      With a lie black as ****?