smirch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Dirt, or a stain. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — Too often, in the years between 800 and 1050, the everyday sun declined through the smirch of flame and smoke of a monastery or town robbed and burnt.
  2. 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)
    — The strain h(t) produced by a smirch in LISA is given by h(t) = −-A(t)cos[(t) + φ(t)]
  3. A stain on somebody's reputation. archaic,countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — there were some business transactions which savored of dangerous speculation, if not dishonesty; and around it all lay the smirch of the Freedmen's Bank.
动词 v.
  1. To dirty; to make dirty. archaic,transitive
    — CELIA. I'll put myself in poor and mean attire, / And with a kind of umber smirch my face; / The like do you; so shall we pass along, / And never stir assailants.
  2. To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander. archaic,figuratively,transitive

词形变化

smirches plural smurch alternative smerch alternative smirches present,singular,third-person smirching participle,present smirched participle,past smirched past smurch alternative smerch alternative smirches plural

词汇关系

衍生词
smirchless besmirch unsmirched

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *smorchen ("to spatter, soil"; attested in besmorchid (“bespattered, soiled all over”)), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a derivative of Middle English smeoren, smuren, smeren (“to smear”) or related to Middle English smotry (“sooty, grimy”). Compare also Middle English bismotered (“bespattered, soiled”), Old French esmorcher (“to torture”), Middle English smoterly, smoterlich (“besmirched”), modern English smut.
词源 2
Blend of smear + chirp.
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