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Smirch v. t. To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully. "I'll... with a kind of umber smirch my face."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Smirch" Quotes from Famous Books

... worthless sojourner. But go ye and declare my message; I will not take thought of bloody war until that wise Priam's son, noble Hector, come to the Myrmidons' huts and ships, slaying the Argives, and smirch the ships with fire. But about mine hut and black ship I ween that Hector, though he be very eager for ...

— The Iliad of Homer • Homer (Lang, Leaf, Myers trans.)

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... morning there passed a church, At ten there passed me by the sea, At twelve a town of smoke and smirch, At two a forest of oak and birch, And then, on a ...

— Late Lyrics and Earlier • Thomas Hardy

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... low and bitterly. Only another crime attributed to the Gray Seal! It would not smirch the Gray Seal any—the Gray Seal had been accused of worse than this! But the man who had dared to place that gray seal ...

— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

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Words linked to "Smirch" : blotch, malign, fingermark, denigrate, defame, inkblot, splodge, besmirch, sully, error, blemish, splotch, fault, accuse, fingerprint, libel, spot, mar, mistake, stain, badmouth, defect, calumniate, daub, smear, drag through the mud