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smirchingverbpresent participle of smirch to make dirtytheir clothes were smirched by dust from the trail befouling, begriming, bemiring, besmirching, blackening, daubing, dirtying, distaining(archaic), fouling, gauming(dialect), griming, miring, mucking, muddying, smudging, soiling, staining, sullying contaminating, defiling, polluting, taintingdiscoloringconfusing, disarranging, disarraying, disheveling(or dishevelling), disordering, draggling, jumbling, messing, muddlingcollying(chiefly British dialect), crocking(dialect) cleaning, cleansing decontaminating, purging, purifyingdisinfecting, sanitizingbrushing, dry-cleaning, dusting, laundering, mopping, rinsing, scouring, scrubbing, sweeping, washing, wipingbrightening, deodorizing, freshening, renewing, sprucing (up)straightening (up), tidying (up) to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyesthis scandal will forever smirch the name of a once-great family abasing, chastening, cheapening, debasing, degrading, demeaning, discrediting, disgracing, dishonoring, fouling, humbling, humiliating, lowering, shaming, sinking, taking down abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattlingbelittling, castigating, criticizing, crying down, decrying, depreciating, detracting, diminishing, discounting, disparaging, minimizing, putting down, ridiculing, writing offbad-mouthing, defaming, defiling, libeling(or libelling), maligning, slanderingaffronting, insultingcensuring, condemning, damning, denouncing, execrating, reprehending, reprobating aggrandizing, canonizing, deifying, elevating, exalting acclaiming, applauding, boasting, celebrating, cheering, citing, commending, complimenting, congratulating, decorating, eulogizing, extolling, feting(or fêting), hailing, honoring, lauding, praising, saluting, toutingacknowledging, recognizinghighlighting, playing up, spotlightingdignifying, ennobling, enshrining, enskying, enthroning, glorifying, magnifyingadvancing, boosting, lifting, promoting, raising, upgrading, upliftingidealizing, romanticizing |