detract
verb (used without object)
to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed byfrom ).
had detracted
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past perfectof detract.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Sony also maintained that budget cuts within CBS had detracted from the network’s efforts to support the two shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
He had found that it had detracted from his importance and had lowered bids, if he allowed would be purchasers to converse with him concerning the articles to be sold.
From Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life by Charles Felton Pidgin
In every quarter of their empire, victorious rebels had established themselves, and had detracted in an immeasurable degree from the effective strength of the Government.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
A long illness had wasted his fine features, but had detracted nothing from their strength and regularity of outline.
From A Monk of Cruta by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Indeed, in the opinion of very many people, who were his friends and well-wishers, when he retired from the White House he had detracted rather than added to his name.
From Fifty Years of Public Service by Shelby M. Cullom
