Synonyms of the word

sully

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

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.

blob

• n. A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance;…
• n. In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas…
• n. (dialect) A bubble, a bleb.
• n. A small freshwater fish (Uranidea richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
• v. (transitive) To drop in the form of a blob or blobs.
• v. (transitive) To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
• n. Alternative spelling of BLOB.

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…

cloud

• n. (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
• n. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
• n. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
• n. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
• n. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
• n. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
• n. (computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage,…
• n. (figuratively) A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver…
• n. (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
• n. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
• v. (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.
• v. (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
• v. (transitive) To make obscure.
• v. (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
• v. (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
• v. (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours.

corrupt

• adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
• adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
• adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
• v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
• v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
• v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
• v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

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.

defile

• v. (transitive) to make impure; to make dirty.
• n. A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains.
• n. A single file, such as of soldiers.
• n. The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To march in a single file.

deflower

• v. (transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.

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.

fleck

• n. A flake.
• n. A lock, as of wool.
• n. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
• v. (transitive) To mark with small spots.

impair

• v. (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
• adj. (obsolete) Not fit or appropriate.

maculate

• v. To spot; to stain; to blur.
• adj. Marked with spots or maculae; blotched.
• adj. Defiled; impure.

mar

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

painter

• n. An artist who paints pictures.
• n. A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
• n. (obsolete) A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
• n. (nautical) A rope connected to the bow of a boat, used to attach it to e.g. a jetty or another boat.
• n. (US) A mountain lion, by mispronunciation of "panther".

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.

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.

smirch

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

solon

• n. A wise legislator or lawgiver.
• n. Any legislator.

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

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.

statesman

• n. A man who is a leader in national or international affairs.
• n. A male political leader who promotes the public good or who is recognized for probity, leadership, or…
• n. In the dialect of the English Lake District and nearby, a man who lives on a landed estate.

taint

• n. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
• n. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
• n. (obsolete) tincture; hue; colour.
• n. (obsolete) infection; corruption; deprivation.
• v. (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
• v. (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
• v. (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
• v. (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are…
• v. (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into…
• n. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
• n. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an…
• v. (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an…
• v. (transitive) To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
• v. (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
• n. (slang) The perineum.
• contract. Alternative spelling of 'taint.

tarnish

• n. Oxidation or discoloration, especially of a decorative metal exposed to air.
• v. (intransitive) To oxidize or discolor due to oxidation.
• v. (transitive) To soil, sully, damage or compromise.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To lose its lustre or attraction; to become dull.

vitiate

• v. (transitive) to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
• v. (transitive) to debase or morally corrupt.
• v. (transitive, archaic) to violate, to rape.
• v. (transitive) to make something ineffective, to invalidate.