Usually means: Tarnish reputation through false statements.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. besmirch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. besmirch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. besmirch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. besmirch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. besmirch: Vocabulary.com
  6. besmirch: Wordnik
  7. besmirch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. besmirch: Wiktionary
  9. besmirch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. besmirch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. besmirch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Besmirch, besmirch: Dictionary.com
  13. Besmirch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. besmirch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. besmirch: Rhymezone
  16. Besmirch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. besmirch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. besmirch: Free Dictionary
  19. besmirch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. besmirch: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. besmirch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. besmirch: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. besmirch: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. besmirch: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See besmirched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, literary) To make dirty.
verb:  (transitive) To tarnish something, especially someone's reputation.

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