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noun
- The act of defaming or sullying.
- Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion.
- (countable) The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
- (uncountable) The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
- changing to a darker color
verb
noun
- An object of criticism or ridicule.
- A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
- A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
- (mathematics, category theory) The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
- A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
- (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
- (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
- A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
- (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
- A goal or objective.
- (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
- (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
- (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- a reference point to shoot at
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- the location of the target that is to be hit
verb
verb
noun
noun
verb
verb
- To defame or sully.
- (transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
- (transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become black.
- (transitive, causative) To make dirty.
- make or become black
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
verb
- (figurative) To make damaging claims about (someone or something); to ruin the reputation of (someone or something); to disparage, to insult.
- (informal, originally US) To intentionally destroy (something) by setting it on fire, especially when committing arson in furtherance of some other criminal act (e.g. insurance fraud or the destruction of evidence).
- To illuminate or provide (a place) with torches (noun etymology 1 sense 1).
- (science fiction) To travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“an engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
- Of a fire: to burn.
- (US, fishing) To catch fish or other aquatic animals by torchlight; to go torch-fishing.
- (UK, dialectal, figurative) To (appear to) flare up like a torch.
- burn maliciously, as by arson
noun
- A stick of wood or plant fibres twisted together, with one end soaked in a flammable substance such as resin or tallow and set on fire, which is held in the hand, put into a wall bracket, or stuck into the ground, and used chiefly as a light source.
- A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
- A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
- A source of enlightenment or guidance.
- (US, slang) An arsonist.
- (chiefly in the plural) The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
- (chiefly Canada, US) Ellipsis of blowtorch (“a tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame”).
- (by extension) A similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material; specifically, a pole with a lamp at one end.
- In carry, hand on, pass on, take up the torch: a precious cause, principle, tradition, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others.
- (science fiction) Ellipsis of torch drive (“a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
- (by extension, Commonwealth) Ellipsis of electric torch: synonym of flashlight (“a battery-powered hand-held light source”).
- a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
- tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
- a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
- a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
noun
- a petty disparagement
- the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander)
- The act of detracting something, or something detracted; taking away; diminution.
- (Roman Catholicism) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.
- A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.
noun
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a blemish made by dirt
- A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
- (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
- (backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.
- (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
verb
- dry (ink) with blotting paper
- make a spot or mark onto
- (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
- (transitive) To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
- (backgammon, transitive) To hit a blot.
- (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
- (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
- (transitive, MLE) To sell illegal drugs, to deal, to push.
- (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
- (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
- (intransitive) To soak up or absorb liquid.
- (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
noun
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- slanderous defamation
- a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
- a blemish made by dirt
- (medicine) A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
- (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
- (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.
- (radio, television, uncountable) Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
- (biology) A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
- (countable, uncountable) A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
- A mark made by smearing.
verb
- make a smudge on; soil by smudging
- cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
- charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
- stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
- (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
- (transitive) To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
- (transitive) To make something dirty.
- (transitive) To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
- (transitive) To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- (transitive) (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
- (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
- (transitive) To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
- (intransitive) To become messy or not clear by being spread.
- (transitive, derogatory) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
noun
verb
noun
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a small contrasting part of something
- a slight attack of illness
- an outstanding characteristic
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- A parking space.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (physics) An autosoliton.
- A location or area.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A difficult situation.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
verb
- catch sight of
- mar or impair with a flaw
- mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition
- detect with the senses
- become spotted
- make a spot or mark onto
- (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- (dialectal) To rain slightly, in scattered, infrequent drops, for example when first beginning to rain.
- (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
- (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
- (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
- (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
- (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
adj
noun
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible
- a soiled or discolored appearance
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
- A blemish on one's character or reputation.
- A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
- A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances.
- (heraldry) One of a number of non-standard tinctures used chiefly in post-medieval heraldry, especially tenné, murrey, or sanguine.
verb
- color for microscopic study
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
- produce or leave stains
- color with a liquid dye or tint
- (transitive) To discolor, as by spilling or other contact with a fluid or substance.
- To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
- To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
- (intransitive) To become stained; to take a stain.
- To coat a surface with a stain
- (transitive, cytology, histology) To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
verb
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- (also figuratively) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
- (figuratively) To become contaminated or impure.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- cause to become muddy
- make turbid
- dirty with mud
adj
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Not clear.
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- (chiefly literary, poetic) Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
- dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
- (of soil) soft and watery
noun
verb
- to criticise someone
- (informal) To soundly defeat someone, or a (sport) team.
- To move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private.
- To dismantle something into its component pieces.
- divide into pieces
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- take apart into its constituent pieces
noun
- The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.
- an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
noun
- a disparaging remark
- a blemish made by dirt
- (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
- Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
- (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
- (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
- An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath.
- A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
- An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).
verb
- speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur
- utter indistinctly
- become vague or indistinct
- play smoothly or legato
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
noun
- A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a very unfavorable manner; a work of criticism which aims to destroy a reputation.
- An action or a program which imposes deep reductions in expenditure.
- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
verb
adj
noun
- (figuratively) A hurtful or disparaging remark.
- (US) The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- (informal, pharmacology) A barbiturate.
- A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
- (ornithology) One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
- A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
- (botany) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
- Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
- The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
- The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
- A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
- Armor for a horse.
- (ichthyology) Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
- the pointed part of barbed wire
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather
- a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove
verb
verb
adj
adv
intj
noun
noun
- The act of defaming or sullying.
- Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion.
- (countable) The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
- (uncountable) The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
- changing to a darker color
verb
noun
- An object of criticism or ridicule.
- A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
- A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
- (mathematics, category theory) The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
- A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
- (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
- (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
- A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
- (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
- A goal or objective.
- (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
- (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
- (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- a reference point to shoot at
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- the location of the target that is to be hit
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a petty disparagement
- the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander)
- The act of detracting something, or something detracted; taking away; diminution.
- (Roman Catholicism) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.
- A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.
noun
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a blemish made by dirt
- A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
- (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
- (backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.
- (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
verb
- dry (ink) with blotting paper
- make a spot or mark onto
- (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
- (transitive) To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
- (backgammon, transitive) To hit a blot.
- (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
- (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
- (transitive, MLE) To sell illegal drugs, to deal, to push.
- (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
- (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
- (intransitive) To soak up or absorb liquid.
- (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
noun
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- slanderous defamation
- a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
- a blemish made by dirt
- (medicine) A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
- (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
- (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.
- (radio, television, uncountable) Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
- (biology) A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
- (countable, uncountable) A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
- A mark made by smearing.
verb
- make a smudge on; soil by smudging
- cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
- charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
- stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
- (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
- (transitive) To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
- (transitive) To make something dirty.
- (transitive) To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
- (transitive) To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- (transitive) (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
- (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
- (transitive) To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
- (intransitive) To become messy or not clear by being spread.
- (transitive, derogatory) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
noun
verb
noun
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a small contrasting part of something
- a slight attack of illness
- an outstanding characteristic
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- A parking space.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (physics) An autosoliton.
- A location or area.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A difficult situation.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
verb
- catch sight of
- mar or impair with a flaw
- mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition
- detect with the senses
- become spotted
- make a spot or mark onto
- (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- (dialectal) To rain slightly, in scattered, infrequent drops, for example when first beginning to rain.
- (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
- (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
- (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
- (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
- (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
adj
noun
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible
- a soiled or discolored appearance
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
- A blemish on one's character or reputation.
- A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
- A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances.
- (heraldry) One of a number of non-standard tinctures used chiefly in post-medieval heraldry, especially tenné, murrey, or sanguine.
verb
- color for microscopic study
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
- produce or leave stains
- color with a liquid dye or tint
- (transitive) To discolor, as by spilling or other contact with a fluid or substance.
- To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
- To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
- (intransitive) To become stained; to take a stain.
- To coat a surface with a stain
- (transitive, cytology, histology) To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
verb
noun
noun
- The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.
- an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
noun
- a disparaging remark
- a blemish made by dirt
- (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
- Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
- (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
- (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
- An insult or slight, especially one that is muttered incoherently under one's breath.
- A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
- An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).
verb
- speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur
- utter indistinctly
- become vague or indistinct
- play smoothly or legato
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
noun
- A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a very unfavorable manner; a work of criticism which aims to destroy a reputation.
- An action or a program which imposes deep reductions in expenditure.
- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
noun
- (figuratively) A hurtful or disparaging remark.
- (US) The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- (informal, pharmacology) A barbiturate.
- A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
- (ornithology) One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
- A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
- (botany) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
- Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
- The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
- The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
- A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
- Armor for a horse.
- (ichthyology) Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
- the pointed part of barbed wire
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather
- a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To defame or sully.
- (transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
- (transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become black.
- (transitive, causative) To make dirty.
- make or become black
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
verb
- (figurative) To make damaging claims about (someone or something); to ruin the reputation of (someone or something); to disparage, to insult.
- (informal, originally US) To intentionally destroy (something) by setting it on fire, especially when committing arson in furtherance of some other criminal act (e.g. insurance fraud or the destruction of evidence).
- To illuminate or provide (a place) with torches (noun etymology 1 sense 1).
- (science fiction) To travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“an engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
- Of a fire: to burn.
- (US, fishing) To catch fish or other aquatic animals by torchlight; to go torch-fishing.
- (UK, dialectal, figurative) To (appear to) flare up like a torch.
- burn maliciously, as by arson
noun
- A stick of wood or plant fibres twisted together, with one end soaked in a flammable substance such as resin or tallow and set on fire, which is held in the hand, put into a wall bracket, or stuck into the ground, and used chiefly as a light source.
- A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
- A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
- A source of enlightenment or guidance.
- (US, slang) An arsonist.
- (chiefly in the plural) The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
- (chiefly Canada, US) Ellipsis of blowtorch (“a tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame”).
- (by extension) A similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material; specifically, a pole with a lamp at one end.
- In carry, hand on, pass on, take up the torch: a precious cause, principle, tradition, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others.
- (science fiction) Ellipsis of torch drive (“a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
- (by extension, Commonwealth) Ellipsis of electric torch: synonym of flashlight (“a battery-powered hand-held light source”).
- a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
- tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
- a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
- a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
verb
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- (also figuratively) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
- (figuratively) To become contaminated or impure.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- cause to become muddy
- make turbid
- dirty with mud
adj
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Not clear.
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- (chiefly literary, poetic) Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
- dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
- (of soil) soft and watery
noun
verb
- to criticise someone
- (informal) To soundly defeat someone, or a (sport) team.
- To move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private.
- To dismantle something into its component pieces.
- divide into pieces
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- take apart into its constituent pieces