Definitions for smirch

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Spelling: [smurch]

IPA: /smɜrtʃ/

Smirch is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in smirch (chimrs).

Definitions for smirch

noun

1. a dirty mark or smear, as of soot, dust, dirt, etc.
2. a stain or blot, as on reputation.

verb (used with object)

1. to discolor or soil; spot or smudge with or as with soot, dust, dirt, etc.
2. to sully or tarnish (a person, reputation, character, etc.); disgrace; discredit.

Origin of smirch

First recorded in 1485-95; origin uncertain

Examples for smirch

After the trial I saw Holker and asked him if he had been helping to smirch any more poor artists.

Every time he looked at me 'twas as if he saw a smirch on his escutcheon.

The smirch upon the regiment was likewise a smirch upon that blood and name.

Every hand but his was black with soot, and his was guiltless of the smirch of Hooniah's pot.

One could never detect a smirch or a grain of dust upon them.

Nothing is too fine for some devils to appropriate and––smirch.

It was a foul deed to seek to shame me in this ugly fashion, and to smirch the honour of the Queen.

"I thought the smirch Society had staked out that claim," said Cam.

He can soil it, but except himself the whole world cannot smirch it.

His will was a scandal, and the horror did not only smirch his good name, it reached to hers.