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TRADUCE
Definition of TRADUCE
verb
To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
TRADUCE carries 4 further meanings.
transitive verb
To make false or malicious statements about (someone) in order to cause humiliation or disgrace. synonym: malign.
transitive verb
To fail to uphold; disregard or violate.
To pass along; transmit.
To transfer; translate; arrange under another form.
Where it comes from
From Latin trādūcō (“carry over; lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from trāns + dūcō (“to lead”). Doublet of transduce, from Latin trānsdūcō.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TRADUCE · 3 relatives in the game
TRADUCE in a sentence
“You realize of course that from here on in the same flaccids you excoriate will now call you a liar as they lie about you, call you a coward as they hide behind their ridiculous pseudonyms, and traduce you as a neocon, a Zionist, a warmonger and an idiot?”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRADUCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 74 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 44, 3 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRADUCE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACDERTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of TRADUCE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TRADUC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 44
Could you have found TRADUCE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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