smirch – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
smirch
v.
smudge, soil, stain; defame, slander, disgrace
n.
smudge, smear, stain; something which is damaging to one's reputation, defamation, slander
Colin McRae: Dirt
Colin McRae: Dirt (shortened to
Dirt in North America, and stylised,
DiRT) is the sixth
racing game in the
Colin McRae Rally series, developed by
Codemasters, and the last of the series to be published before
Colin McRae's death. It features new graphics, audio, physics engine, new vehicles and a new game engine which was co-developed between Codemasters and
Sony Computer Entertainment. The game features a variety of off-road racing categories as well as
World Rally Championship style events. The game was released for the PlayStation 3 in Europe on 14 September 2007, prior to Colin McRae's death. The sequel,
Colin McRae: Dirt 2, was released in September 2009.
Dirt
Dirt is unclean matter, especially when in contact with a person's clothes, skin or possessions when they are said to become
dirty. Common types of dirt include:
- dust — a general powder of organic or mineral matter
- — foul matter such as excrement
- — a black, ingrained dust such as soot
- soil — the mix of clay, sand and humus which lies over the bedrock
smirch
Noun
1. a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
(synonym) smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, slur
(hypernym) blemish, defect, mar
(hyponym) blotch, splodge, splotch
(derivation) besmirch
2. an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"
(synonym) blot, smear, spot, stain
(hypernym) mistake, error, fault
(derivation) defame, slander, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
Verb
1. smear so as to make dirty or stained
(synonym) besmirch
(hypernym) smear
(derivation) smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, slur
2. 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, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
(hypernym) charge, accuse
(hyponym) assassinate
(derivation) blot, smear, spot, stain
Smirch
(v. t.)
To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.
(n.)
A smutch; a dirty stain.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
smirch
Synonyms and related words:
aspersion, attaint, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, bedarken, bedaub, begrime, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, black, black eye, black mark, blacken, blackening, blackwash, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, brand, broad arrow, call names, censure, champain, charcoal, cork, dab, darken, darkening, daub, defile, denigrate, denigration, dinge, dirty, discolor, disparagement, ebonize, engage in personalities, eyesore, fleck, flick, flyspeck, foul, grime, heap dirt upon, imputation, ink, macula, maculation, macule, mark, mark of Cain, melanization, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrification, nigrify, onus, oversmoke, patch, pillorying, point champain, reflection, reprimand, reproach, revile, scorch, sear, shade, shading, shadow, singe, slubber, slur, smear, smirching, smoke, smooch, smouch, smudge, smudging, smut, smutch, smutching, soil, soilage, soilure, soot, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stigmatize, sully, taint, 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.
