To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.
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Accusation.
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To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.
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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
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Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
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A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
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Defect; want; lack; default.
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A small lake. See Mere.
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To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
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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 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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A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.
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A spot; a stain; a daub.
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False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.
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False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.
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A suffocating smoke.
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A suffocating smoke.
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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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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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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 smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.
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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
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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 smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
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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 blacken thoroughly; to make very black.
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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 soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
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To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
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A suffocating smoke.
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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
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To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.
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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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