menoscabar

menoscabar (first-person singular present menoscabo, first-person singular preterite menoscabei, past participle menoscabado)

1. (transitive) to turn incomplete or imperfect
2. (transitive, figuratively) to discredit, to disbelieve
3. (transitive) to despise, to scorn, to look down on

   Synonyms: desprezar, menosprezar

menos +‎ cabo +‎ -ar

• IPA^(key): /menoskaˈbaɾ/ [me.nos.kaˈβ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: me‧nos‧ca‧bar

menoscabar (first-person singular present menoscabo, first-person singular preterite menoscabé, past participle menoscabado)

1. to lessen
2. to sully; to mutilate
3. to undermine
   • 1908, Benito Pérez Galdós, España trágica, chapter 6:

     Sin menoscabar el respeto que a su buen padrastro debía

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• menoscabador

• menoscabo (“reduction”)

• socavar

• “menoscabar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014