desprestigiar

From desprestigi +‎ -ar.

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desprestigiar (first-person singular present desprestigio, first-person singular preterite desprestigií, past participle desprestigiat)

1. (transitive) to discredit, to disparage
   • 1955, Fuster, Joan, El descrèdite de la realitat:

     «L’art abstracte ha vist com s’esfondraven, com es desprestigiaven aquestes tendències que s‘’alçaren contra ell.»

     “Abstract art has seen how these tendencies that rose up against it collapsed, how they were discredited.”

• prestigi

• desprestigiar-se

• “desprestigiar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

From des- +‎ prestigiar.

desprestigiar (first-person singular present desprestigio, first-person singular preterite desprestigiei, past participle desprestigiado)

1. (transitive) to discredit, to smear.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Diálogo du Sul, “Rafael Correa critica a politização do tema Yasuni”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

     «Sobre a campanha desencadeada pela multinacional Chevron contra o Equador, disse que essa empresa gasta 400 milhões de dólares para desprestigiar o governo desta nação e paga cerca de 900 advogados.»

     “Regarding the campaign launched by the multinational Chevron against Ecuador, he said that this company spends 400 million dollars to discredit the government of this nation and pays approximately 900 lawyers.”

• desprestigiar-se

• “desprestigiar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “desprestigiar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

First attested in 1847. From des- +‎ prestigiar.

• IPA^(key): /despɾestiˈxjaɾ/ [d̪es.pɾes.t̪iˈxjaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: des‧pres‧ti‧giar

desprestigiar (first-person singular present desprestigio, first-person singular preterite desprestigié, past participle desprestigiado)

1. (transitive) to discredit, to smear.

   Synonym: desacreditar

   Antonym: prestigiar

   • 1995, Rosario Ferré, La batalla de las vírgenes, page 104:

     Si lo que se pretendía era desprestigiar al Padre, para que su testimonio a favor de la buena reputación de Mariana Duslabón quedara neutralizado, iban a necesitar más munición que aquella.

     If the aim was to discredit the Father, so that his testimony in favor of Mariana Duslabón’s good reputation would be neutralized, they were going to need more ammunition than that.

• desprestigiarse

• “desprestigiar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025