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| VERB: | 1. To contaminate the reputation of: befoul, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, blacken, cloud, denigrate, dirty, smear, smudge, smut, spatter, stain, sully, taint, tarnish. Idioms: give a black eye to, sling (or throw) mud on. See ATTACK, CLEAN. 2. To make dirty: befoul, begrime, besmirch, besoil, black, blacken, defile, dirty, smudge, smutch, sully. See CLEAN. 3. To make morally impure: contaminate, corrupt, defile, infect, pollute, taint. See CLEAN.
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