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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Grime :: Grime (n.) Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained..
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..
Dull :: Dull (v. t.) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
Sully :: Sullying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sull.
Besmirch :: Besmirch (v. t.) To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.
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.
Smirch :: Smirch (v. t.) To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully..
Sulphacid :: Sully (n.) Soil; tarnish; stain.
Taint :: Taint (v. t.) Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
Smut :: Smut (v. t.) To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
Dirty :: Dirty (v. t.) To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc..
Sullies :: Sully (v. i.) To become soiled or tarnished.
Cloud :: Cloud (v. t.) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
Blur :: Blur (v. t.) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation..
Denigrate :: Denigrate (v. t.) Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame.
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..
Black :: Black (a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
Slur :: Slur (v. t.) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
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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