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

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smirch: Encyclopedia

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

(Note: See smirched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (smirch)

noun:  (archaic) Dirt, or a stain.
noun:  (figurative, archaic) A stain on somebody's reputation.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To dirty; to make dirty.
verb:  (transitive, figurative, archaic) To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.
noun:  (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)

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