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Thesaurus: smirch

To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

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  1. v. t. To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.
  2. n. A smutch; a dirty stain.
  3. n. a blemish made by dirt
  4. n. an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
  5. v. smear so as to make dirty or stained
  6. v. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
  7. 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. A smutch; a dirty stain.
  8. To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; tosmutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.I'll . . . with a kind of umber smirch my face. Shak.
  9. v. smear so as to make dirty or stained