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31soil — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. loam, earth, sod, topsoil, dirt, mold, ground; stain, blotch, smudge, smear, filth. v. t. besmear, dirty, daub, stain; defile, sully. See land, region, uncleanness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. dirt, loam …
32Deir Yassin massacre — Deir Yassin today, part of the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center, an Israeli psychiatric hospital. Participants Irgun, Lehi, and Arab villagers …
33name — I n. appellation 1) to adopt, assume; bear; use a name 2) to give smb. a name 3) to call smb. a (bad) name 4) to immortalize smb. s name 5) to invoke God s name 6) an assumed; Christian (esp. BE), first, given; code; dirty; family name, surname;… …
34smear — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. [be]daub, besmirch, smudge; grease, anoint, defame; slander; soil, sully. See covering. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. distortion, slander, put up job*; see deception 1 , lie 1 , trick 1 . v. 1. [To… …
35smudge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. soot, grime, dirt, blotch, smear, blot, smutch; smolder. v. soil, smear, mark, daub, dirty; stain, blacken. See heat, uncleanness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. smirch, spot, soiled spot; see blemish . III… …
36sully — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. soil, stain, tarnish, smear; defile, dishonor, blemish, stigmatize. See uncleanness, disrepute. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To soil] Syn. blot, stain, spot; see dirty . 2. [To defame] Syn. shame, debase,… …
37tarnish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. smirch, taint; dishonor; stain, sully, besmirch; defame; dull, smudge, dim, spot, blemish; discolor. See disrepute, uncleanness. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To stain] Syn. soil, smudge, smear; see dirty .… …
38befoul — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To make dirty: begrime, besmirch, besoil, black, blacken, defile, dirty, smudge, smutch, soil, sully. See CLEAN. 2. To contaminate the reputation of: besmear, besmirch, bespatter, blacken, cloud, denigrate, dirty,… …
39soil — soil, dirty, sully, tarnish, foul, befoul, smirch, besmirch, grime, begrime can all mean to make or become unclean. Soil basically implies fundamental defilement or pollution (as of the mind or spirit) {why war soils and disarranges whatever it… …
40smear — [v1] rub on, spread over apply, bedaub, besmirch, blur, coat, cover, dab, daub, defile, dirty, discolor, overlay, overspread, patch, plaster, slop, smudge, soil, spatter, spray, sprinkle, stain, sully, taint, tar, tarnish; concepts 172,202,215… …
