Synonyms for Tarnish:

• n.

  •
  • talk trash,
  • blacken someone's reputation/name/character,
  • bruise.
  •
  • respect,
  • marks.
  •attribute (noun)
  • tarnish.
  •blemish (noun)
  • impurity,
  • rift,
  • spoilage,
  • brand,
  • eyesore,
  • stigma,
  • scab,
  • weal,
  • imperfection,
  • disfigurement,
  • defacement,
  • distortion,
  • wart,
  • abrasion,
  • blotch,
  • fault,
  • drawback,
  • deformity,
  • lesion,
  • sore.
  •dirt (noun)
  • Feculence,
  • grime,
  • gooks,
  • gunk,
  • scuz,
  • rottenness,
  • sleaze,
  • sleazes,
  • dreck,
  • gook.
  •disgrace (noun)
  • dis-credits,
  • de-gradations,
  • dis-esteems,
  • dis-reputes,
  • dis repute,
  • de-gradation,
  • dis esteem,
  • dis-grace,
  • de-basement,
  • dis respects,
  • dis credits,
  • de basements,
  • ingloriousnesses,
  • de gradation,
  • dis esteems,
  • in-gloriousnesses,
  • dis reputes,
  • de-basements,
  • humblings,
  • dis-respects,
  • dis-favors,
  • dis-favor,
  • in gloriousness,
  • dis favor,
  • dis favors,
  • de basing,
  • dis-esteem,
  • disbarments,
  • dis-respect,
  • dis-repute,
  • dis-credit,
  • in-gloriousness,
  • dis graces,
  • dis grace,
  • de gradations,
  • in gloriousnesses,
  • dis-graces,
  • dis credit,
  • debasings,
  • de-basing,
  • dis respect,
  • de basement.
  •ill repute (noun)
  • bad odors.
  •opprobrium (noun)
  • loss of honor.
  •smuttiness (noun)
  • cruddinesses,
  • un cleanlinesses,
  • un-cleanliness,
  • un cleanliness,
  • un-cleanlinesses,
  • uncleanlinesses.

• v.

  •besmear (verb)
  • be-smear,
  • be smears,
  • be-smears,
  • be smear,
  • be-smearing,
  • be smeared,
  • be smearing,
  • be-smeared.
  •blacken (verb)
  • doing a number on,
  • dis honor,
  • ripping up and down,
  • ripped and down,
  • de cry,
  • rip and down,
  • does number on,
  • doest number on,
  • dis-honored,
  • dis honoring,
  • gave black eye,
  • de-crying,
  • doest a number on,
  • dis honors,
  • de-cry,
  • doeth number on,
  • rip down,
  • ripped up down,
  • de famed,
  • didst a number on,
  • didst number on,
  • dost a number on,
  • dost number on,
  • de faming,
  • doeth a number on,
  • ripping and down,
  • gives a black eye,
  • de cried,
  • rips down,
  • rips up and down,
  • gave a black eye,
  • de-famed,
  • dis honored,
  • de crying,
  • doth a number on,
  • did a number on,
  • dis-honors,
  • gives black eye,
  • bad mouth,
  • does a number on,
  • dis-honor,
  • giving a black eye,
  • ripped up and down,
  • de-cried,
  • rip up down,
  • doing number on,
  • giving black eye,
  • did number on,
  • ripping up down,
  • dis-honoring,
  • de-fames,
  • de-cries,
  • rips up down,
  • doth number on,
  • ripping down,
  • de fame,
  • de-fame,
  • rips and down,
  • de cries,
  • de-faming,
  • de fames.
  •blemish (verb)
  • defect,
  • hurt,
  • hack,
  • scrape,
  • disfigure,
  • blister,
  • mark,
  • fleck,
  • pockmark,
  • abrade,
  • fracture,
  • dot,
  • check,
  • slit,
  • flaw,
  • nick,
  • score,
  • kink,
  • freckle,
  • chip,
  • distort,
  • speck,
  • scratch,
  • splotch,
  • scuff,
  • scar,
  • notch,
  • gash,
  • deform.
  •blot (verb)
  • be-spattered,
  • be spatter,
  • be-spatter,
  • bespatters,
  • be spattered,
  • be-spattering,
  • be spatters,
  • be-spatters,
  • be spattering.
  •cause injury, loss (verb)
  • damage(s).
  •contaminate (verb)
  • pro-fanes,
  • radio activate,
  • radio activates,
  • be-fouls,
  • be-fouling,
  • de-base,
  • radioactivating,
  • pro fanes,
  • radio-activated,
  • be fouling,
  • radio-activate,
  • de based,
  • mucks up,
  • de base,
  • be foul,
  • pro fane,
  • de-based,
  • radio activating,
  • radio-activates,
  • pro-fane,
  • radio-activating,
  • be-foul,
  • be fouled,
  • be-fouled,
  • radioactivates,
  • radio activated,
  • be fouls,
  • mucking up.
  •damage (verb)
  • bangs up,
  • dis-figures,
  • dis-mantles,
  • wore away,
  • dis figure,
  • in-capacitate,
  • dis mantled,
  • dis integrates,
  • dis-figure,
  • dis-integrated,
  • dis-mantled,
  • in-capacitated,
  • under mined,
  • wreaks havoc on,
  • dis-figured,
  • banging up,
  • in capacitated,
  • dis figured,
  • in capacitates,
  • in capacitate,
  • in-capacitating,
  • wreaking havoc on,
  • in capacitating,
  • dis-mantle,
  • under mining,
  • dis figuring,
  • dis mantling,
  • dis mantle,
  • dis-integrates,
  • under-mining,
  • dis-figuring,
  • in-capacitates,
  • dis-mantling,
  • wreaked havoc on,
  • dis figures,
  • dis integrating,
  • wrought havoc on,
  • dis integrate,
  • banged up,
  • dis-integrating,
  • dis mantles,
  • dis integrated,
  • under-mined,
  • dis-integrate.
  •deface (verb)
  • de faced,
  • mis-shape,
  • mis-shaping,
  • de-stroy,
  • mis-shapes,
  • de-form,
  • de-stroys,
  • de forming,
  • de stroyed,
  • de stroying,
  • de-facing,
  • mis shapen,
  • de-formed,
  • de-faces,
  • de formed,
  • de face,
  • de-stroying,
  • mis shaped,
  • de stroys,
  • de-forms,
  • de-forming,
  • mis-shaped,
  • de-stroyed,
  • mis shape,
  • de-faced,
  • de forms,
  • mis shaping,
  • de faces,
  • de-face,
  • DE Form,
  • de facing,
  • mis shapes,
  • de stroy.
  •defile (verb)
  • scuzzing up,
  • making foul,
  • de filing,
  • scuzzes up,
  • de-graded,
  • be-smirch,
  • de files,
  • de grading,
  • maculating,
  • de-file,
  • de-filing,
  • made foul,
  • de-grades,
  • be-smirches,
  • de grades,
  • makes foul,
  • be-smirched,
  • de flower,
  • de graded,
  • de-files,
  • de-flower,
  • de filed,
  • de-grade,
  • de-flowers,
  • de flowering,
  • de-grading,
  • be-smirching,
  • de flowers,
  • be smirches,
  • de flowered,
  • be smirched,
  • de file,
  • maculates,
  • de grade,
  • scuzzed up,
  • de-flowering,
  • be smirch,
  • de-flowered,
  • be smirching,
  • de-filed.
  •dim (verb)
  • be-clouding,
  • be-clouds,
  • be fogged,
  • be fog,
  • be-fogging,
  • be-cloud,
  • be clouding,
  • be dimmed,
  • be fogs,
  • be fogging,
  • be dimming,
  • be-fogged,
  • be-fog,
  • be-dimmed,
  • be clouded,
  • be-dimming,
  • be-fogs,
  • be-clouded,
  • be clouds.
  •dirty (verb)
  • putrefy,
  • muddy,
  • streak,
  • befoul.
  •dirty, corrupt (verb)
  • lose shine,
  • embarrass,
  • dull,
  • defame,
  • darken.
  •discolor (verb)
  • dis-colored,
  • dis colored,
  • disco loring,
  • dis coloring,
  • disco-loring,
  • dis colors,
  • dis-color,
  • dis-coloring,
  • dis color,
  • dis-colors.
  •disgrace (verb)
  • dis-favoring,
  • taking down peg,
  • de-riding,
  • de riding,
  • de-rides,
  • de-pressing,
  • re-duce,
  • de press,
  • dis credited,
  • dis regarding,
  • takes down peg,
  • de-ride,
  • dis crediting,
  • dis-gracing,
  • re-duces,
  • de-presses,
  • dis regards,
  • de pressed,
  • de pressing,
  • dis favoring,
  • dis-crediting,
  • dis-favored,
  • take down peg,
  • dis-regarding,
  • de rides,
  • dis regarded,
  • dis-regarded,
  • de-pressed,
  • de-press,
  • dis favored,
  • de presses,
  • dis graced,
  • takes down a peg,
  • dis-regard,
  • de ride,
  • dis-credited,
  • re duce,
  • dis respecting,
  • tar feather,
  • dis-respected,
  • taking down a peg,
  • dis-regards,
  • took down peg,
  • re duces,
  • dis-graced,
  • dis respected,
  • dis-respecting,
  • took down a peg,
  • dis gracing,
  • dis regard.
  •disserve (verb)
  • dis-serve,
  • dis serving,
  • dis-serving,
  • dis serve,
  • dis-serves,
  • dis served,
  • dis serves,
  • dis-served.
  •fade (verb)
  • dis-appearing,
  • dis-solving,
  • dis appears,
  • dis-solve,
  • losing brightness,
  • dis-solves,
  • evanishes,
  • de-colorize,
  • grew dim,
  • loses brightness,
  • decolorizes,
  • dis solve,
  • dis appearing,
  • growing dim,
  • de colorizes,
  • losing luster,
  • Achromatized,
  • becomes colorless,
  • lost luster,
  • dis appear,
  • dis-appeared,
  • de colorized,
  • evanishing,
  • loses luster,
  • dis solves,
  • de colorizing,
  • de colorize,
  • achromatizes,
  • dis solved,
  • dis appeared,
  • de-colorized,
  • de-colorizing,
  • becoming colorless,
  • dis-appear,
  • evanished,
  • dis solving,
  • de-colorizes,
  • became colorless,
  • dis-appears,
  • dis-solved,
  • lost brightness.
  •harm (verb)
  • in-convenience,
  • dost violence to,
  • in-commode,
  • doest violence to,
  • out-rages,
  • doing violence to,
  • in-commodes,
  • zinged,
  • out-raged,
  • dis-commode,
  • mis-used,
  • in-conveniences,
  • in conveniences,
  • out-rage,
  • out rages,
  • doeth violence to,
  • mis using,
  • doth violence to,
  • mis-using,
  • out raging,
  • out raged,
  • out-raging,
  • dumping on,
  • dis-commodes,
  • dis commode,
  • in commodes,
  • dumps on,
  • ill treat,
  • does violence to,
  • didst violence to,
  • dis commodes,
  • in commode,
  • mis used,
  • did violence to.
  •impair (verb)
  • dis-qualifying,
  • in-validated,
  • de valued,
  • de-creased,
  • lost strength,
  • making useless,
  • dis qualify,
  • de valuating,
  • made useless,
  • de creased,
  • de-valuates,
  • de-creasing,
  • de-values,
  • in validates,
  • de-valuing,
  • de creases,
  • in-validates,
  • dis qualifying,
  • dis-qualified,
  • loses strength,
  • de valuate,
  • de values,
  • de-crease,
  • in-validate,
  • un-fitting,
  • de valuates,
  • in validated,
  • in-validating,
  • in validating,
  • de-valued,
  • dis-qualify,
  • un fits,
  • in validate,
  • de creasing,
  • de-valuating,
  • un fitting,
  • de valuing,
  • de-valuated,
  • dis qualified,
  • makes useless,
  • un fitted,
  • de-value,
  • de crease,
  • de-valuate,
  • losing strength,
  • un-fit,
  • dis qualifies,
  • un-fits,
  • de-creases,
  • un-fitted,
  • de value,
  • de valuated,
  • dis-qualifies.
  •injure (verb)
  • drawing blood,
  • hacked up,
  • dis tress,
  • dis-tressed,
  • draws blood,
  • dis tressed,
  • hacks up,
  • drew blood,
  • dis-tress,
  • dis tresses,
  • dis-tresses,
  • hacking up.
  •malign (verb)
  • re vile,
  • mis represent,
  • mis representing,
  • de-tract,
  • spoke ill of,
  • mis-represented,
  • opprobriated,
  • mudslings,
  • de tract,
  • opprobriating,
  • villainized,
  • speaking ill of,
  • spake ill of,
  • mudslinged,
  • mis-represent,
  • mis represents,
  • de-tracts,
  • re-vile,
  • taking a swipe at,
  • took swipe at,
  • opprobriates,
  • took a swipe at,
  • takes swipe at,
  • villainizing,
  • mis-representing,
  • mis-represents,
  • mis represented,
  • villainizes,
  • de tracts,
  • speaks ill of,
  • taking swipe at,
  • takes a swipe at.
  •pale (verb)
  • loses color,
  • goes white,
  • grows dull,
  • went white,
  • going white,
  • losing color,
  • growing dull,
  • lost color,
  • grew dull.
  •rust (verb)
  • de-cline,
  • de-generated,
  • de cline,
  • de generates,
  • de-clines,
  • de clines,
  • de-generating,
  • de-generate,
  • de generated,
  • de generate,
  • de generating,
  • de-generates.
  •slander (verb)
  • pillory,
  • stigmatize,
  • besmirch,
  • detract,
  • scandalize,
  • calumniate,
  • vilify,
  • shame,
  • denounce,
  • denigrate,
  • dishonor,
  • traduce.
  •smear (verb)
  • over spreads,
  • over-lay,
  • over-spread,
  • be daubing,
  • over laid,
  • over-spreading,
  • over-laying,
  • over spreading,
  • over lays,
  • be-daubed,
  • be daubs,
  • be-daubing,
  • over-spreads,
  • be daub,
  • be daubed,
  • over laying,
  • be-daubs,
  • be-daub,
  • over-laid,
  • over-lays.
  •smirch (verb)
  • countried,
  • co untried,
  • co untrying,
  • countrying,
  • co-untried,
  • co-untrying.
  •soil (verb)
  • be draggled,
  • musses up,
  • be draggles,
  • mussing up,
  • be-draggled,
  • be-draggling,
  • be draggling,
  • be-draggle,
  • bedraggles,
  • be-draggles,
  • be draggle.
  •spoil (verb)
  • up setting,
  • de spoiling,
  • de spoiled,
  • de predates,
  • de-predate,
  • de solated,
  • de-predated,
  • un did,
  • un-does,
  • de-spoiling,
  • un-did,
  • de predate,
  • de spoil,
  • de-spoil,
  • de-predates,
  • de solates,
  • de-solates,
  • de-solated,
  • un done,
  • de spoils,
  • up sets,
  • de-solate,
  • un does,
  • takes apart,
  • un doing,
  • up-sets,
  • de-solating,
  • un-doing,
  • de solate,
  • de-spoiled,
  • up-setting,
  • de predating,
  • de-predating,
  • de predated,
  • de-spoils,
  • de solating,
  • up-set.
  •spot (verb)
  • pimpling.
  •stain (verb)
  • de moralizing,
  • dragging through the mud,
  • dragging through mud,
  • de moralized,
  • de-moralizes,
  • de-moralize,
  • de moralizes,
  • drags through the mud,
  • co loring,
  • dragged through the mud,
  • drags through mud,
  • co-loring,
  • de moralize,
  • de-moralized,
  • dragged through mud,
  • de-moralizing.
  •sully (verb)
  • making unclean,
  • makes unclean.
  •taint (verb)
  • breaks down,
  • de compose,
  • cruds up,
  • broke down,
  • co-oking,
  • casting slur,
  • casts a slur,
  • de-composes,
  • de composing,
  • de-composed,
  • co oking,
  • casts slur,
  • de composes,
  • co oked,
  • cast slur,
  • de composed,
  • de-composing,
  • casting a slur,
  • brake down,
  • co-oked,
  • de-compose,
  • crudded up,
  • crudding up.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Disserve.
  •
  • onus,
  • black eye.
  •
  • spatter.
  •blacken
  • do a number on,
  • blotching,
  • libel,
  • give a black eye,
  • Vilified,
  • rip up and down,
  • do number on,
  • badmouth,
  • ripping,
  • tarnishes,
  • Slurring,
  • blotched,
  • give black eye,
  • ripped down.
  •blemish
  • wrenching.
  •contaminate
  • radioactivate,
  • Poisoned,
  • radioactivated,
  • pollute,
  • infect,
  • muck up,
  • mucked up.
  •corrode
  • rust.
  •damage
  • tamper with,
  • rotted,
  • wearing away,
  • maltreat,
  • bang up,
  • wear away,
  • tampers with,
  • tampered with,
  • tore,
  • ravaged,
  • wears away,
  • wreak havoc on,
  • tampering with.
  •dim
  • Hazing,
  • Hazed,
  • muddied,
  • dulls,
  • Befogging,
  • befogs,
  • Muddying,
  • befog,
  • obfuscate,
  • Dulling,
  • turn down,
  • befogged,
  • muddies,
  • be cloud.
  •dirty
  • grimed,
  • Begriming,
  • encrusting,
  • begrimes,
  • make dusty,
  • make impure,
  • Smutching,
  • encrusted,
  • smutch,
  • smoking,
  • Smutched,
  • besoil,
  • encrust,
  • begrime,
  • encrusts,
  • begrimed,
  • griming.
  •injure
  • draw blood,
  • hack up.
  •rust
  • stales,
  • Staling,
  • Staled.
  •slander
  • cast a slur on,
  • muckraking,
  • be little,
  • blistered,
  • blacken name,
  • muckraked,
  • give a bad name,
  • cast slur on,
  • strumpet,
  • muckrake,
  • strumpeting,
  • sling mud,
  • run smear campaign.

Paraphrases for Tarnish:

• Independent

  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    distorts, deforms.
  • Verb, base form
    distort, undermine, impair, jeopardize, destroy, discredit, disrupt, injure, frustrate, sabotage, maim, erode, imperil, destabilize, endanger, jeopardise, prejudice, hurt, detract.

• Other Related

  • Verb, base form
    sully, harm, damage, infringe.

Antonyms for Tarnish:

• v.

  • dirty, corrupt
    improve, mend, praise, beautify, heal, purify, please, Uncorrupt, honor, clean, benefit, cure, whiten, aid, assist, help, fix, brighten, lighten, polish.
  • Other antonyms:
    glorify, enshrine, uplift, dignify, magnify, elevate, ennoble, hallow.

Hyponym for Tarnish:

• n.

  • attribute
    stain, discolouration, discoloration.