Synonyms of the word

smirch

• n. Dirt, or a stain.
• n. (of a reputation) Stain.
• v. To dirty; to make dirty.

accuse

• v. (transitive) To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
• v. (transitive) To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
• v. (intransitive) To make an accusation against someone.
• n. (obsolete) An accusation.

asperse

• v. To sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust).
• v. To falsely or maliciously charge another.

besmirch

• v. (transitive, literary) To make dirty; to soil.
• v. (transitive) To tarnish something, especially someone's reputation; to debase.

blemish

• n. A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
• n. A moral defect; a character flaw.
• v. To spoil the appearance of.
• v. To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.

blot

• n. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
• n. (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
• n. (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
• n. (backgammon) an exposed piece in backgammon.
• v. (transitive) to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
• v. (intransitive) to soak up or absorb liquid.
• v. (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
• v. (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
• v. (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
• v. (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
• v. (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
• v. (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

calumniate

• v. (transitive) To make hurtful untrue comments about.
• v. (transitive) To levy a false charge against, especially of a vague offense, with the intent to damage…

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

daub

• n. Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction (compare wattle and daub).
• n. A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
• n. A crude or amateurish painting.
• v. (intransitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
• v. (transitive) To apply something to (a surface) in hasty or crude strokes.
• v. (transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
• v. To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
• v. To flatter excessively or grossly.
• v. To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.

defame

• v. To disgrace; to bring into disrepute.
• v. (now chiefly historical) To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence.
• v. To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage.
• n. (now rare, archaic) Disgrace, dishonour.
• n. (now rare or nonstandard) Defamation; slander, libel.

defect

• n. A fault or malfunction.
• n. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
• n. (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
• v. (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military…
• v. (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
• v. (military) To join the enemy army.
• v. (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.

denigrate

• v. (transitive) To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
• v. (transitive) To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
• v. (rare) To blacken.

error

• n. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
• n. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
• n. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
• n. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
• n. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
• n. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
• n. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
• v. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
• v. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
• v. (nonstandard) To err.

fault

• n. A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. A weakness of character; a failing.
• n. A minor offense.
• n. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
• n. (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
• n. (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
• n. (tennis) An illegal serve.
• n. (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
• n. (obsolete) want; lack.
• n. (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
• v. (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
• v. (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
• v. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.

mar

• v. To spoil, to damage.
• n. A blemish.
• n. A small lake.

mistake

• n. An error; a blunder.
• n. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in…
• v. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
• v. (intransitive) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

slander

• n. A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to…
• v. To utter a slanderous statement; baselessly speak ill of.

slur

• n. An insult or slight.
• n. (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
• n. (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused…
• n. (obsolete) A trick or deception.
• n. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
• v. To insult or slight.
• v. To run together; to articulate poorly.
• v. (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
• v. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
• v. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
• v. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
• v. (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

smear

• v. (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To have a substance smeared on (a surface).
• v. (transitive) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false…
• v. (intransitive) To become spread by smearing.
• v. (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
• n. A mark made by smearing.
• n. (medicine) A Pap smear.
• n. A false attack.
• n. (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe…
• n. (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.

smudge

• n. A blemish; a smear.
• n. Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
• n. (US) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of…
• n. (paganism, especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
• v. To obscure by blurring; to smear.
• v. To soil or smear with dirt.
• v. To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
• v. To stifle or smother with smoke.
• v. (paganism, intransitive) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
• v. (paganism, transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).

spot

• n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
• n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
• n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
• n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
• n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
• n. A location or area.
• n. A parking space.
• n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
• n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
• n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
• n. Difficult situation; predicament.
• n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
• n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
• n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
• n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
• n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
• n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
• n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
• n. An autosoliton.
• n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
• v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
• v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
• v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
• v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
• v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
• v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
• v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
• v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
• adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.

stain

• n. A discoloured spot or area.
• n. A blemish on one's character or reputation.
• n. A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
• n. A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
• v. To discolour something.
• v. To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation.
• v. To coat a surface with a stain.
• v. (cytology) To treat a microscope specimen with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features.
• v. To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.

sully

• v. (transitive) to soil or stain; to dirty.
• v. (transitive) to damage or corrupt.
• v. (intransitive) To become soiled or tarnished.