Sully

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To mar the cleanness or luster of; soil or stain.
  • v. To defile; taint.
  • n. Archaic Something that stains or spots.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to soil or stain; to dirty
  • v. to damage or corrupt
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively.
  • verb-intransitive. To become soiled or tarnished.
  • n. Soil; tarnish; stain.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To soil; stain; tarnish; defile.
  • Figuratively, to stain or tarnish morally.
  • To dim; darken.
  • To be or become soiled or tarnished.
  • n. Soil; tarnish; spot.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
  • v. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
  • v. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
  • n. United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
  • n. French statesman (1560-1641)
  • Verb Form
    sullied    sullies    sullying   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deflower    vitiate    spoil    mar    impair    painter    solon    statesman    national leader   
    Cross Reference
    foul    soily    contaminate   
    Variant
    sullied   
    Form
    sullied    sullying   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    soil    dirty    spot    tarnish    stain    darken    stigma    blemish    blot    blur   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Tully    cully    gulley    gully