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sullying

verb , present participle of sully

Synonyms and Antonyms of sullying

to make dirty

people that sully our state parks with their trash

a once-gleaming marble interior sullied by decades of exposure to cigarette smoke

Synonyms of sullying

befouling, begriming, bemiring, besmirching, blackening, daubing, dirtying, distaining [archaic], fouling, gauming [dialect], griming, miring, mucking, muddying, smirching, smudging, soiling, staining

Words Related to sullying

contaminating, defiling, polluting, tainting

confusing, disarranging, disarraying, disheveling (or dishevelling), disordering, draggling, jumbling, messing, muddling

collying [chiefly British dialect], crocking [dialect]

Near Antonyms of sullying

decontaminating, purging, purifying

disinfecting, sanitizing

brushing, dry-cleaning, dusting, laundering, mopping, rinsing, scouring, scrubbing, sweeping, washing, wiping

brightening, deodorizing, freshening, renewing, sprucing (up)

straightening (up), tidying (up)

Antonyms of sullying

cleaning, cleansing

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