Smirch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To soil, stain, or dirty with or as if with a smearing agent: "their tough, hostile faces, smirched by the grime and rust” ( Henry Roth).
  • v. To dishonor; defame.
  • n. Something, such as a blot, smear, or stain, that smirches.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To dirty; to make dirty.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.
  • n. A smutch; a dirty stain.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To stain; smear; soil; smutch; besmirch.
  • Figuratively, to degrade; reduce in honor, dignity, fame, repute, or the like: as, to smirch one's own or another's reputation.
  • n. A soiling mark or smear; a darkening stain; a smutch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. smear so as to make dirty or stained
  • n. a blemish made by dirt
  • v. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
  • n. an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
  • Verb Form
    smirched    smirches    smirching   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    smear    mistake    error    fault   
    Form
    besmirch   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    smutch    begrime    soil    sully    stain    smear    discredit    soily    besmirch   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts