soil+tarnish
91sully — sulliable, adj. /sul ee/, v., sullied, sullying, n., pl. sullies. v.t. 1. to soil, stain, or tarnish. 2. to mar the purity or luster of; defile: to sully a reputation. v.i. 3. to become sullied, soiled, or tarnished. n. 4. Obs. a stain; soil.… …
92Metals conservation — The bronze apoxyomenos, ,dated between 1st and 2nd century BC,found and recovered from Adriatic sea near small island Vele Oryule,near island Loshiny, example of archaeological metals conservation, Croatia Metals conservation, or more precisely… …
93smut — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. soot, smudge, spot, blemish; dirt, filth, pornography; fungus, rot, mildew. See impurity. v. blacken, sully, smudge. See uncleanness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Filth] Syn. dirt, muck, grime; see filth .… …
94uncleanness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Dirtiness Nouns 1. uncleanness, impurity; filth, defilement, contamination, soilure; abomination; taint; malodorousness; decay, putrescence, putrefaction; corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot;… …
95befoul — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To make dirty: begrime, besmirch, besoil, black, blacken, defile, dirty, smudge, smutch, soil, sully. See CLEAN. 2. To contaminate the reputation of: besmear, besmirch, bespatter, blacken, cloud, denigrate, dirty,… …
96bespatter — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To mark or soil with spots: blotch, spatter, splatter, splotch, spot. See MARKS. 2. To hurl or scatter liquid upon: dash, slop, slosh, spatter, splash, splatter, spray, swash. See STRIKE. 3. To contaminate the… …
97Uncleanness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Uncleanness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 uncleanness uncleanness &c.???adj. Sgm: N 1 impurity impurity Sgm: N 1 immundity immundity immundicity Sgm: N 1 impurity impurity &c.???of mind ???>961 …
98taint — 1. noun the taint of corruption Syn: trace, touch, suggestion, hint, tinge; stain, blot, blemish, stigma, black mark, discredit, dishonor, disgrace, shame 2. verb 1) the wilderness is tainted by pollution …
99blot — n 1. spot, speck, blotch, patch, dot, mark; smudge, smutch, smear, smirch, blur; stain, soil, dirt. 2. blemish, taint, flaw, mar; defect, fault, crack, scratch; imperfection, disfigurement, defacement. v 3. spot, smudge, smutch, mark, ink;… …
100dirt — n 1. filth, grime, squalor, squalidhess; smudge, stain, tarnish, rust; dust, soot, ashes, cinders; smoke, smog, pollution, particulate matter, contaminant, adulterant; mud, muck, mire, ooze, sludge, slime, Sl. crud, Inf. gook, Sl. yuk; foulness,… …
