smirch
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)Dirt, or a stain.
- 2.
(archaic, countable, figuratively, uncountable)(figurative, archaic) A stain on somebody's reputation.
- 3.
(astronomy) A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)
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verb- 1.
(archaic, transitive)To dirty; to make dirty.
Đồng nghĩa: besmirch, file, soil, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, contaminate, darken, defile, dirten, dirty, elt, file, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle
- 2.
(archaic, figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative, archaic) To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.
Đồng nghĩa: besmirch, libel, muddy, abase, bring down to size, cut down to size, debase, defame, degrade, demean, demote, depress, discredit, disgrace, dishonour, disparage, downgrade, embase, give a bad name, humble, humiliate, knock down to size, put someone in their place, reduce, relegate, sink, slur, trim down to size, whittle down to size
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From Middle English *smorchen ("to spatter, soil"; attested in besmorchid (bespattered, soiled all over)), of origin. Perhaps a derivative of Middle English smeoren, smuren, smeren (to smear) or related to smotry. Compare also bismotered, esmorcher, smoterly, smoterlich (besmirched), modern smut.