To sully the honour of, dishonour. Obsolete = defile, v.1 6.

transitive. To pollute or sully (someone or something) morally or spiritually; to defile; to dishonour, disgrace.

transitive. To stain or taint, esp. with moral defilement, or with the imputation of guilt or shameful conduct; to stigmatize; rarely (quot. 1541)…

transitive. figurative. To keep (something) from being understood or remembered; to obscure, eclipse. Also: to spoil or tarnish (something); to…

transferred and figurative. To defile; to bring a blot or stain upon; to sully, dishonour.

transitive. To bring into disgrace or discredit; to tarnish; to sully. Obsolete.

To cast a slur upon, asperse, defame, discredit, disable. Obsolete except in Law.

transitive. To stain, sully (a person's name); to defame, represent (a person) in a bad light. Cf. black, adj. 10.

figurative. To sully (fame, reputation, or the like); to defame.

transitive. To spot, stain, or soil (something); (now rare) to defile (a person or thing). (literal and figurative.)

transitive. To stain or taint (a person or thing).

To make brown (the face or skin), esp. by exposure to the sun or weather; to embrown, sunburn; hence, to make dark or tawny in colour.

figurative. To be or inflict a permanent reproach to or stigma upon; to blemish, soil (a person's reputation, honour, conscience, etc.); †to charge…

transitive. To defame, cast aspersions on, vilify. Obsolete.

figurative. (a) Chiefly const. with, and usually implying something base or discreditable; (b) (without const.), to attempt to discredit (a…

figurative. To cast a blot upon (good qualities or reputation); to tarnish, stain, sully. archaic or Obsolete.

figurative. To sully, defile, pollute.

To sully the honour of, to dishonour. Obsolete.

figurative. To sully (lustre, purity, etc.).

figurative. To sully or tarnish; to bring disgrace or discredit upon (a person or thing).

figurative. To sully (renown, etc.).

transitive. To taint, infect; ? to tinge, stain; dialect to give a smack or tang to.

transitive. figurative and in figurative contexts: to colour, imbue; to stain, tinge. Obsolete.

To soil, discolour, as with smoke, soot, or mud; also figurative to sully, dim the lustre of.

figurative. To stain, sully, blot, or blemish the purity, beauty, or truth of (anything); to disfigure, befoul, defile, asperse.

intransitive. To tarnish or sully (a person's name, reputation, etc.). Now rare.

transitive. ‘To blacken with smoke or soot’ (Johnson), to dirty; also figurative.

To cast a slur upon, defame, asperse, sully.

transitive. To pollute, defile; to soil, stain, tarnish. in immaterial sense.

To sully, stain, tarnish (a person's honour).

figurative. To stain, sully, besmirch, etc., morally or otherwise.

transitive. figurative. To defame (a person), to damage (a person's reputation, name, etc.).

In the phrases to cast, put, throw (etc.) a slur onor upon (a person or thing).

figurative. To take away from the purity of, cast a stain upon; to sully, taint; to bring disgrace upon.

transitive. To blacken the character of; to cast aspersions, disparage. Cf. whitewash, v. 3a.

transitive. Perhaps: to denigrate, to blacken. Obsolete. rare.

transferred. To cast discredit or disgrace upon (a person, his honour, etc.); to bring into ill-repute; to taint or tarnish. Said of actions…

transferred and figurative. To mark, spot, or stain, esp. in a permanent way; to affect or characterize permanently as if by marking; to defame…

transitive. figurative. To debase, sully, dishonour; esp. to damage (a person's reputation, name, etc.).