discredit

1. V-T To discredit someone or something means to cause them to lose people's respect or trust. 使…喪失信譽(yù)

...a secret unit within the company that had been set up to discredit its major rival. …爲(wèi)破壞其主要競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手聲譽(yù)而設(shè)的一個(gè)公司內(nèi)秘密單位。

2. discreditedADJ 名譽(yù)掃地的

The previous government is, by now, thoroughly discredited. 上屆政府至今徹底名譽(yù)掃地。