smirch
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Is smirch a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic) Dirt, or a stain.Examples: "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."archaiccountableuncountable
2. (figurative, archaic) A stain on somebody's reputation.Examples: "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."archaiccountablefigurativelyuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive, archaic) To dirty; to make dirty.Examples: "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."; "Girls thought that by leaping over the fires without being smirched they made sure of a happy marriage."Synonyms: besmirch, soilarchaictransitive
2. (transitive, figurative, archaic) To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.Synonyms: besmircharchaicfigurativelytransitive
noun (English)
1. (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)Examples: "The strain h(t) produced by a smirch in LISA is given by h(t) = −-A(t)cos[(t) + φ(t)]"; "By observing a smirch, LISA offers a unique opportunity to directly map the spacetime geometry around the central object and test whether or not this structure is in accordance with the expectations of general realtivity."
Definition source: Wiktionary