Smirch

Quick meaning: Smirch is a noun meaning (figurative, archaic) A stain on somebody's reputation.

Meaning

(figurative, archaic) A stain on somebody's reputation.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, archaic) To dirty; to make dirty.
2. (transitive, figurative, archaic) To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.
3. (astronomy) A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)
4. (archaic) Dirt, or a stain.

Example Sentences

The strain h(t) produced by a smirch in LISA is given by h(t) = −-A(t)cos[(t) + φ(t)]

Girls thought that by leaping over the fires without being smirched they made sure of a happy marriage.

Too often, in the years between 800 and 1050, the everyday sun declined through the smirch of flame and smoke of a monastery or town robbed and burnt.

there were some business transactions which savored of dangerous speculation, if not dishonesty; and around it all lay the smirch of the Freedmen's Bank.

Word Forms

• smirches
• smirching
• smirched

Synonyms for smirch

Depending on context, synonyms include besmirch, file, soil, assoil, beclart, bedaub.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include smudge, smear, blot, stain, besmirch, asperse.

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