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maculate

English

  1. 🔊 spotted or blotched
  2. 🔊 morally blemished
  3. 🔊 make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air
    “The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air”
  4. 🔊 spot, stain, or pollute
    “The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it”

Similar words

foul befoul defile tarnish stain sully defile defiled besmirched bespangled bespeckled blotched blotchy defiled dotted dotty flea-bitten flecked fleckered frecked freckle-faced freckled freckly impure