diffamer
French, verb/di.fa.me/
diffamer is a French verb meaning “to defame; smear; ruin the name of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Décrier, chercher à déshonorer, à nuire à la réputation par ses paroles ou par ses écrits”.
What does diffamer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to defame; smear; ruin the name of
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Décrier, chercher à déshonorer, à nuire à la réputation par ses paroles ou par ses écrits.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of diffamer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- diffamant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- diffamé participle past
- diffame first-person indicative present
- diffames indicative present second-person
- diffamons first-person indicative plural
- diffamez indicative plural present
- diffament indicative plural present
- diffamais first-person imperfect indicative
- diffamait imperfect indicative singular
- diffamions first-person imperfect indicative
- diffamiez imperfect indicative plural
- diffamaient imperfect indicative plural
- diffamai first-person historic indicative
- diffamas historic indicative past
- diffama historic indicative past
- diffamâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce diffamer?
- /di.fa.me/
- \di.fa.me\
- \di.fɑ.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to diffamer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is diffamer in French?
diffamer appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).