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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Accusation.
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Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.
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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
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Same as Deflour.
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A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
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To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.
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A small lake. See Mere.
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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
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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 make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…
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To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence.
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To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.
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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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To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.
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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 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 accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.
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A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
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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 march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
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To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.
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To spot; to stain; to blur.
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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 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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A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
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To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the lus…
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