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
smirch (countable and uncountable, plural smirches)
Dirt, or a stain.
(figurative) A stain on somebody's reputation.
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
Meld of smear and chirp
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)
• 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
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
