Dictionary Entry
asperse
asperse is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3verb
charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
"The journalists have defamed me!"
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