Calumniate
- v. i. To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime.
- v. t. To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.