Difference between Discredit and Denigrate

DISCREDIT vs DENIGRATE: NOUN

Lack or loss of trust or belief; doubt.
Want of credit or good repute; some degree of disgrace or reproach; disesteem: applied to persons or things: as, frauds that bring manufactures into discredit; a transaction much to his discredit.
Want of belief, trust, or confidence; disbelief: as, his story is received with discredit.
The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved.
Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons or things.
Loss of respect or damage to one's reputation.
The state of being held in low esteem
Something that brings disgrace or distrust.

Reject as false; refuse to accept
Cause to be distrusted or disbelieved
To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.
Damage the reputation of

Belittle
Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
To blacken.
Cause to seem less serious; play down

To cause to be doubted or distrusted.
To refuse to believe.
To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace.
To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of.
To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve.
To damage in reputation; disgrace.

Stigma, Shaming, Shame, Distort, Slander, Undermine, Belittle, Defame, Denigrate, Vilify, Smear, Malign, Disbelieve, Disgrace, Disrepute

Undermine, Discredit, Vilify, Disparage, Asperse, Calumniate, Smirch, Minimize, Derogate, Slander, Smear, Sully, Defame, Besmirch, Belittle

Frame, Discount, Dishonour, Shadow, Shame, Distort, Slander, Undermine, Belittle, Denigrate, Vilify, Smear, Malign, Disbelieve, Disgrace

Diminish, Devalue, Blacken, Undermine, Discredit, Vilify, Disparage, Smirch, Minimize, Derogate, Slander, Smear, Sully, Besmirch, Belittle

Theyre trying to basically discredit what were doing.
Does that discredit the entire ideal of multiculturalism?.
Additionally, your misconduct has brought discredit upon yourself.
But does it directly discredit the dossier itself?
That brings discredit upon the Department or employee.
Fell uses to further discredit her male adversaries.
No discredit to the makers of TV shows.
Here, five ways Republicans tried to discredit Cohen.
We even have to discredit our own pilots.
And they know that the best thing you could do was discredit the science, discredit the scientists and deflect the issue.