sully

FREQ #10998

vt. 玷污, 弄脏 n. 污点, 脏污

发音

US /ˈsʌli/
UK /ˈsʌli/
AU

词形变化

sullies 复数 sullies sullied sullies 三单 sullying sullying 现在分词 sullied 过去式 sullied 过去分词

别名

sullow

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A blemish.

    废旧 罕用
v.
  1. 1.

    To soil or stain; to dirty.

    及物

    He did not wish to sully his hands with gardening.

  2. 2.

    To corrupt or damage.

    及物

    She tried to sully her rival’s reputation with a suggestive comment.

  3. 3.

    To become soiled or tarnished.

    不及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 10

cloud corrupt stain smear slander taint tarnish defile defame denigrate

上位词 10

charge spot spoil accuse mar blob blot fleck impair deflower

下位词 7

assassinate libel darken badmouth malign drag through the mud traduce

相关短语

Sully County

词源

From Middle English sulen, sulien (“to become dirty; to defile, pollute, taint”), from Old English sylian (“to soil, pollute; to sully”), from Proto-West Germanic *sulwōn, *sulwijan (“to make dirty; to sully”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid, muck”), perhaps conflated partially with Old French souillier (“to soil”) (modern French souiller) from the same Germanic source. The word is cognate with Danish søle (“to sully”), West Flemish seulewen (“to sully”) (Middle Dutch soluwen (“to sully”)), German sühlen (“to sully”), Old Saxon sulian (“to sully”), Swedish söla (“to sully”). Also compare Middle English sulpen (“to defile, pollute”), Old English solian (“to soil, become defiled, make or become foul”), and see more at soil.

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