Den"i*grate (?), v. t. [L. denigrare; de- + nigrare to blacken, niger black.]
1.
To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.
Boyle.
2.
Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame.
To denigrate the memory of Voltaire. Morley.
© Webster 1913.
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