Meaning

• Discrediting or disbelieving.

• A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution.

• The state of being discredited or disbelieved.

  "Later accounts have brought the story into discredit."

• A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.

Meaning

• To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.

  "The candidate tried to discredit his opponent."