tarnish
111sully — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. soil, stain, tarnish, smear; defile, dishonor, blemish, stigmatize. See uncleanness, disrepute. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To soil] Syn. blot, stain, spot; see dirty . 2. [To defame] Syn. shame, debase,… …
112Blemish — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Blemish >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 blemish blemish disfigurement deformity Sgm: N 1 adactylism adactylism Sgm: N 1 flaw flaw defect &c.(imperfection) 651 Sgm: N 1 injury injury &c.(d …
113sully — v. a. 1. Soil, stain, tarnish, spot, blemish, dirty, contaminate, deface. 2. Stain, soil, tarnish, blemish, dishonor, disgrace, contaminate …
114blemish — I. v. a. 1. Stain, sully, blur, spot, tarnish, mar, injure, taint. 2. Defame, vilify, traduce, asperse, calumniate, slander, malign, revile, run down, speak ill of. See abuse. II. n. 1. Stain, spot, defect, speck, blot, blur, soil, tarnish, flaw …
115blur — I. n. 1. Blot, stain, spot, blemish, soil, tarnish, defect. 2. Confusion (of vision), dim and uncertain spot, confused glimmer. 3. Blot, stain, disgrace, spot, blemish, blotch. II. v. a. 1. Obscure, darken, dim, bedim, partially erase. 2. Tarnish …
116soil — I. v. a. Foul, dirty, stain, pollute, sully, tarnish, defile, taint, contaminate, daub, bedaub, begrime, besmear, bespatter, make foul, bemire. II. n. 1. Dirt, filth, foulness, foul matter. 2. Stain, blot, spot, tarnish, defilement, taint,… …
117spot — I. n. 1. Speck, blot, mark, speckle. 2. Blemish, stain, taint, flaw. 3. Disgrace, reproach, fault, blemish, flaw. 4. Place, locality, site. II. v. a. 1. Make spots on, dapple, variegate. 2. Stain, sully, soil …
118soil — soil, dirty, sully, tarnish, foul, befoul, smirch, besmirch, grime, begrime can all mean to make or become unclean. Soil basically implies fundamental defilement or pollution (as of the mind or spirit) {why war soils and disarranges whatever it… …
119cloud — n 1. haze, vapor, mist, steam, fog, Inf. pea soup; nebula, nebulosity, smoke, smog, soot, dust, puff; smoke screen, dust storm. 2. pall, shroud, mantle, cloak, veil, screen, shade, shadow, cover. 3. blur, smudge, smear, smutch, smirch; blotch,… …
120discredit — v 1. detract, degrade, censure, reproach, make disreputable, bring into disfavor, injure or impair the credit or reputation of, tear down; disparage, decry, demean, deprecate, deflate, devaluate, depreciate, belittle; defame, slur, asperse,… …
