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- 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.
- Tarnish - v. i. - To lose luster; to become dull; as, gilding will tarnish in a foul air.
- Tarnish - n. - The quality or state of being tarnished; stain; soil; blemish.
- Tarnish - n. - A thin film on the surface of a metal, usually due to a slight alteration of the original color; as, the steel tarnish in columbite.
- Tarnished - imp. & p. p. - of Tarnish
- Tarnisher - n. - One who, or that which, tarnishes.
- Tarnishing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Tarnish
- Tarnish - v. i. - To lose luster; to become dull; as, gilding will tarnish in a foul air.
- Asperse - v. t. - To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character.
- Aspersion - n. - The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny.
- 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.
- Slander - v. t. - To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.
- Tarnish - n. - A thin film on the surface of a metal, usually due to a slight alteration of the original color; as, the steel tarnish in columbite.