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SMIRCH
blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain
(noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; “he made a huge blot on his copybook”
smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur
(noun) a blemish made by dirt; “he had a smudge on his cheek”
defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
(verb) 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”
smirch, besmirch
(verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
smirch (countable and uncountable, plural smirches)
Dirt, or a stain.
(figurative) A stain on somebody's reputation.
Verb
smirch (third-person singular simple present smirches, present participle smirching, simple past and past participle smirched)
(transitive) To dirty; to make dirty.
Synonyms: besmirch, soil
(transitive, figurative) To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.
Synonym: besmirch
Etymology 2
Meld of smear and chirp
Noun
smirch (plural smirches)
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)
Anagrams
• chirms, chrism
Source: Wiktionary
Smirch, v. t. Etym: [From the root of smear.]
Definition: To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully. I'll . . . with a kind of umber smirch my face. Shak.
Smirch, n.
Definition: A smutch; a dirty stain.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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