1. to soil, stain, or dirty with or as if with a smearing agent: "their tough, hostile faces, smirched by the grime and rust” ( henry roth).
2. to dishonor; defame.
3. something, such as a blot, smear, or stain, that smirches.

1. to dirty; to make dirty.

1. A smutch; a dirty stain.
2. to smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

1. to stain; smear; soil; smutch; besmirch.
2. figuratively, to degrade; reduce in honor, dignity, fame, repute, or the like: as, to smirch one's own or another's reputation.
3. A soiling mark or smear; a darkening stain; a smutch.

1. smear so as to make dirty or stained
2. a blemish made by dirt
3. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
4. an act that brings discredit to the person who does it