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DISCREDIT Definition & Legal Meaning

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To destroy or impair the credibility of a person ; to impeach ; to lessenthe degree of credit to be accorded to a witness or document, as by impugning the veracityof the one or the genuineness of the other; to disparage or weaken the relianceupon the testimony of a witness, or upon documentary evidence, by any means whatever.

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