SULLY, SULLYING
NOUNS
1602 — SULLEY → SULLY an act of sullying, soiling, or polluting; a stain, a blemish → obs.
VERBS
..897 — SULE to soil, to sully → obs.
1000 — AFILE to destroy the ideal purity of; to corrupt, to taint, to sully → obs.
1374 — DARK to obscure, to cloud, to dim, to sully → arch.
1382 — POLLUTE to violate the purity or sanctity of; to profane or desecrate; to corrupt, to sully
1413 — SMIT to bring into disgrace or discredit; to tarnish; to sully obs.
1495 — SMIRCH to make dirty, to soil, to sully, to discolour something by contact or touch
1513 — SUDDLE to soil, to sully, to defile → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1533 — DUSK to sully or tarnish; to make gloomy or depressed
1542 — IMBRATE to defile, to sully, to pollute → obs.
1579 — BESMEAR to sully, to defile, to pollute
1602 — BESMIRCH to sully, to dim the lustre of
1603 — BESPURT to abuse; to sully with vice → obs.
1604 — BESPURTLE to asperse with reproach or abuse; to sully with vice → obs.
1610 — BESMUT to stain, to sully
1613 — TAINT to sully, to stain, to tarnish a person’s honour → obs.
1631 — SMOOCH to sully, to dirty
1635 — BESULLY to sully or soil badly
1905 — MISMENSE to soil, to sully, to damage, to make untidy; also, to disgrace → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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