different between begrime vs sully
begrime
English
Etymology
From be- (“about, all over”) +? grime.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?m
Verb
begrime (third-person singular simple present begrimes, present participle begriming, simple past and past participle begrimed)
- (transitive) To make something dirty; to soil.
Translations
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sully
English
Etymology
From Middle English sulen, sulien (“to become dirty; to defile, pollute, taint”), from Old English sylian (“to soil, pollute; to sully”), from Proto-Germanic *suliw?n?, *sulw?n?, *sulwijan? (“to make dirty; to sully”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?l- (“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”), Dutch zaluwen (“to sully”) (Middle Dutch saluwen (“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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?s?li/
- Rhymes: -?li
- Hyphenation: sul?ly
Verb
sully (third-person singular simple present sullies, present participle sullying, simple past and past participle sullied)
- (transitive) To soil or stain; to dirty.
- Synonym: (obsolete) sowl
- (transitive) To corrupt or damage.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become soiled or tarnished.
Alternative forms
- sullow
Coordinate terms
- (to corrupt or damage): besmirch, debase, stain, tarnish
Derived terms
- besully
- unsullied
- unsully
Translations
Noun
sully (plural sullies)
- (rare, obsolete) A blemish.
References
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