Discredited
Discredited adjective - Being unjustly brought into disrepute.
Took and discredited are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Took" instead a verb "Discredited".
Took
Discredited and took are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Discredited" instead a verb "Took".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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He simply took it to the extreme and discredited it permanently in American mainstream politics.
Source: Useful Notes / Joseph McCarthy -
No leaks except the one person who took photos (easily discredited due to the above), and all this at one of the busiest ports in the United States.
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Jerkass: Mayor McShane, who brushed off and discredited Egon in the first episode, then ignoring the team's warnings in Luck of the Irish and took the credit for resolving the situation at the end of the episode.
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