smirch
noun
Meaning
- Dirt, or a stain.
- A stain on somebody's reputation.
- To dirty; to make dirty.
- To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.
- 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)
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