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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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..
Cloud :: Cloud (v. t.) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.
Distain :: Distain (v. t.) To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry.
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..
Smut :: Smut (v. t.) To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
Blur :: Blur (v. t.) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation..
Sulphacid :: Sully (n.) Soil; tarnish; stain.
Dull :: Dull (v. t.) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
Black :: Black (a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
Taint :: Taint (v. t.) Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
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..
Dirty :: Dirty (v. t.) To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc..
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..
Grime :: Grime (n.) Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained..
Smirch :: Smirch (v. t.) To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully..
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..
Darken :: Darken (a.) To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
Contaminate :: Contaminate (v. t.) To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile..
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