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malign
Overview of verb malign
The verb malign has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud -- (speak unfavorably about; "She badmouths her husband everywhere")
Overview of adj malign
The adj malign has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) malign -- (evil or harmful in nature or influence; "prompted by malign motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits"; "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion")
2. malefic, malevolent, malign, evil -- (having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force")
Grep of noun malign
malignance
malignancy
malignant anaemia
malignant anemia
malignant hepatoma
malignant hypertension
malignant hyperthermia
malignant melanoma
malignant neoplasm
malignant neoplastic disease
malignant neuroma
malignant pustule
malignant tumor
maligner
malignity
malignment
Antonyms of verb malign
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb malign
1 sense of malign
Sense 1
badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud
=> defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
=> charge, accuse
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb malign
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb malign
1 sense of malign
Sense 1
badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud
=> defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
'Cause To' of verb malign
Derived Forms of verb malign
1 sense of malign
Sense 1
badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud
RELATED TO>(noun) malignment#1
=> smear, vilification, malignment
RELATED TO>(noun) maligner#1
=> defamer, maligner, slanderer, vilifier, libeler, backbiter, traducer
Domain of verb malign
Domain Terms of verb malign
Familiarity of verb malign
malign used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb malign
1 sense of malign
Sense 1
badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb malign
1 sense of malign
Sense 1
badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud
> defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
=> assassinate
=> libel
=> badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb malign
Sense 1
badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud
=> defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
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Grep of verb malign
malign
Antonyms of adj malign
2 senses of malign
Sense 1
malign (vs. benign)
benign (vs. malign), benignant
=> harmless, nonmalignant
=> kindly
Sense 2
malefic, malevolent, malign, evil
INDIRECT (VIA maleficent) -> beneficent
Similarity of adj malign
2 senses of malign
Sense 1
malign (vs. benign)
=> cancerous
=> evil, harmful, injurious
Also See> harmful#3; maleficent#1; unkind#1
Sense 2
malefic, malevolent, malign, evil
=> maleficent (vs. beneficent)
Pertainyms of adj malign
Attributes of adj malign
1 of 2 senses of malign
Sense 1
malign (vs. benign)
=> malignity, malignancy, malignance
Domain of adj malign
Domain Terms of adj malign
Familiarity of adj malign
malign used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj malign
malign
malignant
Grep of adv malign
malignantly
malignly
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