uncredit

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verb

To cause to be disbelieved; to discredit.

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Meanings

verbuncredit (third-person singular simple present uncredits, present participle uncrediting, simple past and past participle uncredited)

present singular third person uncredits · participle present uncrediting · participle past uncredited · past uncredited

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo cause to be disbelieved; to discredit.

    Then was it Kilvert's design to uncredit the testimony of Pregion

    1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
  2. transitiveTo deduct the amount of payment that was previously credited to an account.

    But, unfortunately, if the promises to pay are not fulfilled, the Reparation Commission will later have to uncredit Germany's account.

    1972, Harold Glenn Moulton, Constantine Edward McGuire, Germany's Capacity to Pay: A Study of the Reparation Problem

Origin

From un- + credit.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

uncredit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncredit

MLA

“uncredit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncredit. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncredit,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncredit.

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