Definition of sully

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Sully (v. t.) To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation..

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Denigrate :: Denigrate (v. t.) Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame.
Eclipse :: Eclipse (v. t.) To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing..
Contaminate :: Contaminate (v. t.) To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile..
Slur :: Slur (v. t.) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
Blacken :: Blacken (v. t.) To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character..
Cloud :: Cloud (v. t.) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.
Dirty :: Dirty (v. t.) To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc..
Besmirch :: Besmirch (v. t.) To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.
Sullies :: Sully (v. i.) To become soiled or tarnished.
Sully :: Sully (v. t.) To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation..
Grime :: Grime (v. t.) To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.
Defile :: Defile (v. t.) To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint..
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
Taint :: Taint (v. t.) Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
Sulphacid :: Sully (n.) Soil; tarnish; stain.
Soil :: Soil (n.) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully..
Grime :: Grime (n.) Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained..
Smut :: Smut (v. t.) To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
Sully :: Sullying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sull.
Tarnish :: Tarnish (a.) To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of color..
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