tarnish
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noun- 1.
(uncountable, usually)Oxidation or discoloration, especially of a decorative metal exposed to air.
1918, Hannah Teresa Rowley, Mrs. Helen Louise (Wales) Farrell, Principles of Chemistry Applied to the Household Precipitated calcium carbonate, a very fine powdery form, is used as a basis for many tooth powders and pastes. As whiting it finds a wide use in cleaning metals of their tarnishes.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive)To oxidize or discolor due to oxidation.
Careful storage of silver will prevent it from tarnishing.
Đồng nghĩa: oxidate, oxygenize
- 2.
(transitive)To compromise, damage, soil, or sully.
He is afraid that she will tarnish his reputation if he disagrees with her.
Đồng nghĩa: befoul, inquinate, denigrate, blot, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, contaminate, darken, defile, dirten, dirty, elt, file, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear, bewray, blacken, blame, blaze, blemish, blot, blur, calumniate, calumny, chat shit, chat shite, cloud, defame, demonize, denigrate, deprave, depreciate, detract, dirty, discredit, disgrace, disparage, disrepute, diss, drag through the mud, forgab, forspeak, foul, infamize, lampoon, libel, malign, monsterize, muddy, reproach, revile, scandal, shit-talk, slag, slander, smear, smirch, spatter, spot, speak ill of, stab, stain, sully, talk shit, talk shite, talk trash, tarnish, torch, traduce, trash-talk, unflatter, vilify, vilipend, villainize, wrong
- 3.
(figuratively, intransitive)(intransitive, figurative) To lose its lustre or attraction; to become dull.
Đồng nghĩa: dull, dullen, leaden, pall
- 4.
(copyright law) To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it brings disrepute to it.
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From Middle English ternysshen, from Old French terniss-, stem of ternir (to make dim, make wan), borrowed from Old High German *ternen, tarnen, from *darnijan (to conceal). dern darn.