smirch

To soil, stain, or dirty with or as if with a smearing agent.

To dishonor; defame.

Something, such as a blot, smear, or stain, that smirches.

To stain; smear; soil; smutch; besmirch.

Figuratively, to degrade; reduce in honor, dignity, fame, repute, or the like: as, to smirch one’s own or another’s reputation.

A soiling mark or smear; a darkening stain; a smutch.

To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

A smutch; a dirty stain.

To dirty; to make dirty.

smear so as to make dirty or stained