| admire | (verb) feel admiration for | Synonyms: look up to |
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| (verb) look at with admiration | - |
| bemire | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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| besmirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| (verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: smirch |
| mire | (verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: muck, muck up, mud |
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| (verb) be unable to move further | Synonyms: bog down, get stuck, grind to a halt |
| (verb) cause to get stuck as if in a mire | Synonyms: bog down |
| (verb) entrap | Synonyms: entangle |
| mirror | (verb) reflect or resemble | - |
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| (verb) reflect as if in a mirror | - |
| smirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, sully |
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| (verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: besmirch |
| smirk | (verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: simper |
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