Besmirch

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To make dirty; to soil.
 * 2)  To tarnish, especially someone's reputation; to debase.
 * The newspaper was on a campaign to besmirch the actor.

Thesaurus
attaint, bedarken, bedaub, besmear, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, black, blacken, blackwash, blot, blotch, blur, brand, call names, charcoal, cork, darken, daub, defile, denigrate, dinge, dirty, discolor, ebonize, engage in personalities, heap dirt upon, ink, mark, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrify, oversmoke, revile, scorch, sear, shade, shadow, singe, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soot, spot, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, throw mud at, vilify

Translations

 * Bulgarian: мърся, омърсявам
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 弄髒, 弄脏
 * Dutch: besmeuren
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Italian:, ,  , insozzare
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  ,


 * Bulgarian: петня, черня
 * Dutch: bekladden,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:


 * Italian: denigrare, macchiare, insudiciare, lordare
 * Mandarin: 弄髒,   弄脏
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  ;