besmirch – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
besmirch
v.
stain, sully, dirty, soil
besmirch
Verb
1. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
(synonym) defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully
(hypernym) charge, accuse
(hyponym) assassinate
2. smear so as to make dirty or stained
(synonym) smirch
(hypernym) smear
Besmirch
(v. t.)
To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
besmirch
Synonyms and related words:
attaint, bedarken, bedaub, besmear, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, black, blacken, blackwash, blot, blotch, blur, brand, call names, charcoal, cork, darken, daub, defile, denigrate, dinge, dirty, discolor, ebonize, engage in personalities, heap dirt upon, ink, mark, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrify, oversmoke, revile, scorch, sear, shade, shadow, singe, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soot, spot, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, throw mud at, vilify
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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