To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.
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Accusation.
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To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
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To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.
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To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence.
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A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
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Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.
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To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.
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Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; sl…
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Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; sl…
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The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.
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The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.
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Derogatory.
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Derogatory.
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Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto.
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Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto.
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To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.
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To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
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To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.
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To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.
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To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calum…
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To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law.
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To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum.
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A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemina…
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To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
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To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.
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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.
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