detract
verb (used without object)
to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed byfrom ).
is detracting
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present progressiveof detract (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Stephen Sackur speaks to actor and disability rights campaigner Liz Carr on whether the focus on a ‘good death’ is detracting from the right to a good life?
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
Rep. Marc Molinaro, R-N.Y., doubled down on the calls for his resignation, implying that the controversy is detracting from more pertinent issues currently on the table for Congress.
From Salon ● May 10, 2023
But there is a widespread sense that time is running out on a solution to the protracted Syrian conflict, which the administration has said is detracting from its efforts against the Islamic State.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2016
And every month and hour is detracting from its value, and blackening the curse that rests upon it.
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
It is detracting from the honor which is their due to say that their lives had much of happiness or comfort, or were in any respect preferable to our own.
From Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by John George Nicolay
