sully – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: impair,
vitiate,
deflower,
spoil,
mar,
blot,
spot,
fleck,
blob,
accuse,
charge
sully
v.
dirty, soil, tarnish; taint, defile, disgrace
Sully
Sully can refer to:
People
- Given name
- Surname
- Nickname
Sully
Noun
1. United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
(synonym) Thomas Sully
(hypernym) painter
2. French statesman (1560-1641)
(synonym) Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune
(hypernym) statesman, solon, national leader
sully
Verb
1. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"
(synonym) defile, corrupt, taint, cloud
(hypernym) mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate
2. make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
(synonym) tarnish, stain, maculate, defile
(hypernym) spot, fleck, blob, blot
(hyponym) darken
3. 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, besmirch
(hypernym) charge, accuse
(hyponym) assassinate
Sully
(v. t.)
To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.
(v. i.)
To become soiled or tarnished.
(n.)
Soil; tarnish; stain.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
sully
Synonyms and related words:
abuse, attaint, bedaub, befoul, benasty, besmear, besmirch, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, betray, black, blacken, blemish, blot, blow upon, brand, call names, censure, contaminate, corrupt, daub, debauch, deceive, defame, defile, deflower, demoralize, denigrate, despoil, destroy, dirty, disapprove, discolor, disgrace, disparage, engage in personalities, expose, expose to infamy, force, foul, gibbet, hang in effigy, heap dirt upon, infect, lead astray, mar, mess, mess up, mislead, muckrake, nasty, pillory, pollute, rape, ravage, ravish, reprimand, revile, ruin, seduce, shame, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spoil, spot, stain, stigmatize, taint, tar, tarnish, throw mud at, vilify, violate, vitiate, wreck
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.
