All be-little synonyms

verb be-little

• mute — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
• soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
• soften — to make soft or softer.
• gloss over — an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
• deemphasize — to place less emphasis upon; reduce in importance, size, scope, etc.: The university de-emphasized intercollegiate football.
• sneer — to smile, laugh, or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn or contempt: They sneered at his pretensions.
• offend — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
• reveal — to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
• revile — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
• discover — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
• persecute — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
• insult — to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
• sully — to soil, stain, or tarnish.
• defile — To defile something that people think is important or holy means to do something to it or say something about it which is offensive.
• scandalize — to shock or horrify by something considered immoral or improper.
• tarnish — to dull the luster of (a metallic surface), especially by oxidation; discolor.
• libel — the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
• besmirch — If you besmirch someone or their reputation, you say that they are a bad person or that they have done something wrong, usually when this is not true.
• grin — to smile broadly, especially as an indication of pleasure, amusement, or the like.
• mar — to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
• denigrate — If you denigrate someone or something, you criticize them unfairly or insult them.
• sentence — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
• miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
• punish — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
• denounce — If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil.
• censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
• chide — If you chide someone, you speak to them angrily because they have done something wicked or foolish.
• underprice — to price (goods or merchandise) lower than the standard price or fair value.
• condemn — If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
• lessen — to become less.
• impair — to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
• cheapen — If something cheapens a person or thing, it lowers their reputation or position.
• vitiate — to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
• degenerate — If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• pervert — to affect with perversion.
• bump — If you bump into something or someone, you accidentally hit them while you are moving.
• debauch — to lead into a life of depraved self-indulgence
• demote — If someone demotes you, they give you a lower rank or a less important position than you already have, often as a punishment.
• injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
• bust — a raid, search, or arrest by the police
• bench — A bench is a long seat of wood or metal that two or more people can sit on.
• depose — If a ruler or political leader is deposed, they are forced to give up their position.
• deprave — Something that depraves someone makes them morally bad or evil.
• canker — A canker is something evil that spreads and affects things or people.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• sink — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
• disbar — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
• contemn — to treat or regard with contempt; scorn
• stoop — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.