Asperse

Definition: Asperse

Asperse

Verb

1. 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".

Date "asperse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Asperse \As*perse"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Aspersed; present participle verb or noun Aspersing.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Satire	ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Asperse

Synonyms: besmirch (v), calumniate (v), defame (v), denigrate (v), slander (v), smear (v), smirch (v), sully (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Detraction	Verb: detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap; belittle; sneer at; (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Asperse

English words defined with "asperse": Appeach, Aspersed, Aspersing, Aspersive ♦ Bespurt. (references)

Etymologies containing "asperse": Aspersorium ♦ Bespurt. (references)

Expression using "asperse": asperse smb.'s good name. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "asperse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		spërkat (bedew, besprinkle, damp, dampen, dash, dew, perfuse, plash, slosh, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew), shpif (badmouth, belie, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander). (various references)

Arabic		‏نضح (aspersion, douche, exudation, exude, ooze, perfusion, pulverization, pulverize, spray, sprinkle, spurt, sweat, transpiration), ‏ذم (blacken, blackguard, disparage, disparagement, dispraise, invective, slur, vilify, vituperate, vituperation), ‏رش (besprinkle, dabble, dust, powder, spatter, spirt, splash, splatter, spray, spraying, sprinkle, squirt). (various references)

Bulgarian		ръся със свещена вода, клеветя (bad-mouth, bespatter, calumniate, defame, denigrate, libel, slander, slur, spatter, traduce, vilify), позоря (be disgrace to, defame, discredit, disgrace, mire, shame). (various references)

Czech		ostouzet (calumniate). (various references)

French		asperser. (various references)

German		verleumden (backbit, backbite, backbitten, backstabbing, belie, calumniate, defame, libel, malign, slander, slur, smear, to asperse, to calumniate, to defame, to slander, to slur, to traduce, traduce). (various references)

Greek		κακολογώ (backbite, badmouth, decry, defame, denigrate, gossip, malign, miscall, speak ill of, vilify), ραντίζω (atomize, dash, plash, spatter, spray, sprinkle, squirt). (various references)

Hungarian		rágalmaz (backbite, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, to defame, to deprave, to libel, to scandalize, to slander, to smear, to vilify), becsmérel (blackguard, decry, depreciate, disparage, malign, miscall, to abuse, to decry, to defame, to deprave, to depreciate, to detract, to disparage, to malign, to miscall, to revile, to vilify, to write down, vilify). (various references)

Indonesian		memfitnah (backbite, calumniate, defame, malign). (various references)

Italian		calunniare (backbite, calumniate, defame, libel, malign, slander, slur, traduce). (various references)

Pig Latin		asperseay

Portuguese		aspergir (besprinkle, perfuse, spray, sprinkle), orvalhar (bedew, dew, drop, moisten, perfuse, sprinkle), difamar (belie, blacken, blemish, defame, detract, libel, malign, reproach, scandalize, slander, smirch, speak evil of, stain, traduce, vilify), caluniar (abuse, backbite, calumniate, decry, defame, libel, malign, slander, slanderer, vilify), borrifar (bedew, besprinkle, dabble, dash, dew, drop, perfuse, plash, spray, sprinkle). (various references)

Romanian		stropi (beddable, besmear, besmirch, dabble, damp, dash, drop, irrigate, perfuse, smear, smirch, sparge, spatter, speck, splash, splatter, splutter, spray, sprinkle, sputter, squirt, water), presãra (Dot, dredge, interlard, intersperse, lard, punctuate, sand, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew), ponegri (abuse, backbite, black, blacken, cry down, cut up, demolish, denigrate, mire, pull to pieces, run down, slander, write down), defãima (belie, black, blemish, bring reproach upon, calumniate, cast a slur upon, defame, denigrate, depreciate, disparage, libel, put a slur upon, slander, slur, smear, spatter, traduce, vilify). (various references)

Russian		позорить (damage, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, stigmatize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oklevetati (defame, denigrate, hurl, libel, malign, slander, smear, vilify). (various references)

Spanish		hisopear, difamar (backbite, badmouth, blacken, cast aspersion, defame, libel, malign, traduce). (various references)

Swedish		smäda (abuse, blaspheme, calumniate, libel, revile, vituperate), förtala (cast aspersions on, defame, libel, misrepresent, slander, traduce, vilify). (various references)

Turkish		serpmek (besprinkle, dabble, dust, intersperse, perfuse, pulverization, scatter, spill, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew), lekelemek (attaint, bastardize, bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brand, breathe upon, cloud, defile, dirty, discolor, discolour, dishonor, fleck, flecker, maculate, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish), iftira etmek (back bite, backbite, be defamatory of smb., bespatter, calumniate, cast a slur on, cast the blame, defame, denigrate, malign, put a slur on, scandalize, slander, smut, speak evil of, traduce, vilify), çamur atmak (bespatter, calumniate, cast aspersions upon smb., fling dirt at smb., frame, frame up, malign, slander, sling ink, sling mud at, spatter, throw dirt at smb., traduce). (various references)

Ukrainian		кропити (besprinkle, sprinkle, wash), ганьбити (abuse, animadvert, attaint, besmirch, blaspheme, defame, disgrace, inveigh, reproach, scandalize, shame, soil, spot, stain, tarnish, tongue, vilify, vituperate, wrong), обмовляти (calumniate, cant, denigrate), оббризкувати (bedew, besprinkle, sparge, spatter, splash), паплюжити (defame). (various references)

Welsh		taenellu (sprinkle), gwaradwyddo (reproach, shame). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	denigrata. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "asperse": aspersed, asperser, aspersers, asperses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Asperse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adpase, Alpenrose, Alpers, Ansperto, Aperte, asper, aspere, Asperen, asperge, Asperne, Aspersa, aspert, esperase, Espersen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: pareses, serapes.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-p-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: aspers, erases, parses, passee, passer, peases, perses, prases, repass, sarees, serape, spares, sparse, spears, speers, sprees.
	-2 letters: apers, apres, apses, arses, asper, eases, erase, erses, pares, parse, pases, passe, pears, pease, peers, perea, perse, prase, prees, presa, prese, press, rapes, rases, rasps, reaps, saree, sears, seeps, seers, seres, spaes, spare, spars, spear.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-p-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: asperges, aspersed, asperser, asperses, escapers, pleasers, presages, relapses, repassed, repasses, reshapes, respaces, respades, respeaks, speakers, spearers, trapeses.
	+2 letters: airspeeds, aphereses, apheresis, appeasers, appressed, asperates, aspersers, bespreads, espaliers, lamperses, paperless, passenger, passerine, pederasts, perhapses, permeases, persuades, pessaries, pharisees, pleasures, prepastes, presagers, preseason, preshapes, pretastes, prewashes, proteases, rapeseeds, relapsers, repassage, rephrases, resamples, reshapers, respreads, separates, spareness, spreaders, supersafe, supersale, vesperals.
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