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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.
- transitive 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.
- verb. 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!"
Synonyms
besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in asperse:
Common word forms
aspersed, asperser, asperses, aspersing
Words from these letters
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