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sully 音标拼音: [s'ʌli] vt. 沾污,弄脏
n. 污点,脏污 沾污,弄脏污点,脏污 Sully n 1: United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872) [synonym: {Sully}, {Thomas Sully}] 2: French statesman (1560-1641) [synonym: {Sully}, {Duc de Sully}, {Maxmilien de Bethune}] v 1: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation" [synonym: {defile}, {sully}, {corrupt}, {taint}, {cloud}] 2: make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man" [synonym: {tarnish}, {stain}, {maculate}, {sully}, {defile}] 3: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation" [synonym: {defame}, {slander}, {smirch}, {asperse}, {denigrate}, {calumniate}, {smear}, {sully}, {besmirch}] Sully \Sul"ly\, v. i. To become soiled or tarnished. [1913 Webster] Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Sully \Sul"ly\, n.; pl. {Sullies}. Soil; tarnish; stain. [1913 Webster] A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies in his reputation. --Spectator. [1913 Webster] Sully \Sul"ly\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sullied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sullying}.] [OE. sulien, AS. sylian, fr. sol mire; akin to G. suhle mire, sich, s["u]hlen to wallow, Sw. s["o]la to bemire, Dan. s["o]le, Goth. bisaulijan to defile.] To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation. [1913 Webster] Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster] No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster] 83 Moby Thesaurus words for "sully": abuse, attaint, bedaub, befoul, benasty, besmear, besmirch, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, betray, black, blacken, blemish, blot, blow upon, brand, call names, censure, contaminate, corrupt, daub, debauch, deceive, defame, defile, deflower, demoralize, denigrate, despoil, destroy, dirty, disapprove, discolor, disgrace, disparage, engage in personalities, expose, expose to infamy, force, foul, gibbet, hang in effigy, heap dirt upon, infect, lead astray, mar, mess, mess up, mislead, muckrake, nasty, pillory, pollute, rape, ravage, ravish, reprimand, revile, ruin, seduce, shame, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spoil, spot, stain, stigmatize, taint, tar, tarnish, throw mud at, vilify, violate, vitiate, wreck Sully, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 904 Housing Units (2000): 360 Land area (2000): 0.520573 sq. miles (1.348277 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.520573 sq. miles (1.348277 sq. km) FIPS code: 76035 Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19 Location: 41.578638 N, 92.845441 W ZIP Codes (1990): 50251 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Sully, IA Sully
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