asperse

asperse has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• v. t.. To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.
• v. t.. To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character.
• v.. 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"