sully /sulˈi/

1. To soil
2. To tarnish
3. To mar or stain
4. To pollute or defile

To be or become soiled

1. A spot
2. Tarnish

• pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps
• pull one's finger out
• pull one's punches
• pull one's weight
• pull-ons
• pullorum disease
• pull out
• pull-out
• pull out all the stops
• pull out a…stop
• pull over
• pullover
• pullovers
• pull rank
• pull round
• pulls
• pull someone's leg
• pull strings
• pull-tab
• pull-tabs
• pull technology
• pull the chestnuts out of the fire
• pull the forelock
• pull the long bow
• pull the plug on