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smirch

noun

Meaning

  1. Dirt, or a stain.
  2. A stain on somebody's reputation.
  3. To dirty; to make dirty.
  4. To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.
  5. 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)

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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