Associations to the word «Traduce»

Wiktionary

TRADUCE, verb. (transitive) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
TRADUCE, verb. (archaic) (transitive) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
TRADUCE, verb. (archaic) (transitive) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.

Dictionary definition

TRADUCE, verb. Speak unfavorably about; "She badmouths her husband everywhere".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne