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detract

/dih-trakt/US // dɪˈtrækt //UK // (dɪˈtrækt) //

减损,减轻,减轻影响,减损了

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to draw away or divert; distract: to detract another's attention from more important issues.
    • : Archaic. to take away; abate: The dilapidated barn detracts charm from the landscape.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbtake away a part; lessen

Examples

  • That does give us all pause — but it doesn’t take away or detract from where I think the market is headed.

  • This new lens hardly detracts from Linda’s magnificent saga.

  • More frustrating is the way its stage-managed surface detracts from everything that’s more distinctive and spontaneous about the Haarts’ story.

  • Experts fear such fake news detracts from how trafficking really happens.

  • If they keep throwing curve balls or adding on things, that detracts from what they’ve hired us to do.

  • “Pillows are ‘light,’ ‘fluffy,’ and may detract from our message,” she wrote.

  • His conservatism, which is more of a cultural than political kidney, seems to fascinate, delight or detract critics.

  • Abortion-rights advocates by no means seek to detract from LGBT movement or begrudge it victories.

  • But the religious iconography did not detract from the excitement brewing in the room.

  • Clarence Thomas had 48 votes against him, a fact that does not, alas, detract a whit from his votes and opinions.

  • She was growing a little stout, but it did not seem to detract an iota from the grace of every step, pose, gesture.

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  • It does not detract from his merits, it rather adds thereto, that his brush was also photographic.

  • If I add that he is in one respect to be included among the most virulent, I do not necessarily detract from his value.

  • Nor does it detract from his fame as a man of genius that he did not originate the most profound of his declarations.