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.
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Smirch
//smɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃ//
Synonyms for "smirch" (244 found)
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Related words (122)
Verb(51 words)
foulgrimeheap dirt uponimputationinjureinkmaculamaculationmaculemalignmarkmark of cainmelanizationmelanizemuckmuckrakemurknigrificationnigrifyonus
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oversmokepatchpilloryingpoint champainreflectionreprimandreproachrevilescandalscorchsearshadeshadingshadowsingeslubberslursmearsmirchingsmokesmoochsmouchsmudgingsmutsmutchsmutchingsoilagesoiluresootspatterspeckspecklesplashsplattersplotchspotstainstigmastigmatismstigmatizationstigmatizesullytainttarnishthrow mud atvilify
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Translations
16 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- изцапвам verb (to dirty)
- опетнявам verb (to dirty)
Czech
2 entries- skvrna noun (dirt, stain)
- špinit verb (to dirty)
Dutch
1 entries- vuil maken verb (to dirty)
French
1 entries- salir verb (to dirty)
Galician
3 entries- ensuciar verb (to dirty)
- lixar verb (to dirty)
- manchar verb (to dirty)
German
2 entries- beschmutzen verb (to dirty)
- verschmutzen verb (to dirty)
Russian
2 entries- мара́ть verb (to dirty)
- пятна́ть verb (to dirty)
Spanish
1 entries- ensuciar verb (to dirty)
Ukrainian
2 entries- зама́рувати verb (to dirty)
- плямити verb (to dirty)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
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.
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CELIA. I'll put myself in poor and mean attire, / And with a kind of umber smirch my face; / The like do you; so shall we pass along, / And never stir assailants.
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Girls thought that by leaping over the fires without being smirched they made sure of a happy marriage.
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