Clues for the word "DETRACT"
We've had 29 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 65 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on November 22, 2025.
Definition of detract
- v. t. - To take away; to withdraw.
- v. t. - To take credit or reputation from; to defame.
- v. i. - To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from.
Referring Clues
- Take away
- Take away (from)
- Diminish, with "from"
- What drawbacks do
- Divert
- ___ from; diminish
- Draw away
- Not enhance
- Drag down
- Belittle
- Diminish
- Diminish time hauled back
- Take worth (from)
- Take away from foreign land
- Belittle Germany and Spain with monograph
- Take away pamphlet after editor turned up
- Diminish the worth (of)
- Steal (from other's glory)
- Draw away from Land's End, England trailing rapidly away, Cornwall too, for starters
- Take away daughter's English dissertation
- Take away from, diminish
- Take away overhauled model
- Take away shipment finally transported to the North
- Take glory (from)
- Diminish, ___ from
- Take away section after database is depleted
- Take away from, by deed, half the land
- Take from
- ___ from (diminish the value of)
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - November 22, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 22, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 29, 2025
- LA Times - March 03, 2025
- USA Today - February 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 07, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 11, 2024
- USA Today - March 07, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 24, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 10, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - May 27, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 26, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - March 14, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 15, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - January 20, 2023
- LA Times - December 07, 2022
- Your Life Choices - November 14, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - October 14, 2022
- Your Life Choices - September 18, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - September 13, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - August 19, 2017
- Your Life Choices - June 09, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - November 18, 2016
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