smirch
IPA: smˈɝtʃ
noun
- (archaic) Dirt, or a stain.
- (figurative, archaic) A stain on somebody's reputation.
- (astronomy) A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)
verb
- (transitive, archaic) To dirty; to make dirty.
- (transitive, figurative, archaic) To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.
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Examples of "smirch" in Sentences
- She accidentally smirched the car.
- Did you find a smirch on the paper
- Her hands were smirched with dirts.
- He tends to ignore smirches he made.
- This site is smirched due to pollution.
- A dirty sand smirched a child's clothes.
- He found some smirches from his writings.
- I tried not to correct a smirch on my paper.
- Even though he noticed the smirch, he just ignored it.
- Garrett Reid's tragic and criminal death is a final, unwashable smirch on Andy Reid's legacy.
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