| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To contaminate the reputation of: befoul, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, blacken, cloud, denigrate, dirty, smear, smudge, smut, soil, stain, sully, taint, tarnish. Idioms: give a black eye to, sling (or throw) mud on. See ATTACK, CLEAN. 2. To hurl or scatter liquid upon: bespatter, dash, slop, slosh, splash, splatter, spray, swash. See STRIKE. 3. To mark or soil with spots: bespatter, blotch, splatter, splotch, spot. See MARKS.
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