| Pronunciation: | | bi'smurch
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| Matching Terms: | | besmirched
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- [v] 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"
- [v] smear so as to make dirty or stained
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| | Synonyms: | | asperse, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, smirch, sully |
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| | See Also: | | accuse, assassinate, badmouth, charge, drag through the mud, libel, malign, smear, traduce |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Be*smirch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Besmirched}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Besmirching}.]
To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To
dishonor; to sully. --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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