asperse
English
Etymology
- From Latin aspersum, past participle of aspergere.
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Verb
asperse (third-person singular simple present asperses, present participle aspersing, simple past and past participle aspersed)
- To sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust).
- To falsely or maliciously charge another; to slander.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
- This is indeed a most aggravating circumstance, which attends depriving men unjustly of their reputation; for a man who is conscious of having an ill character, cannot justly be angry with those who neglect and slight him; but ought rather to despise such as affect his conversation, unless where a perfect intimacy must have convinced them that their friend’s character hath been falsely and injuriously aspersed.
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Quotations
- 2004: a hand in San Marco's font / aspersed him with foul canal water — Derek Walcott, The Prodigal, (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2004) page 102
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:defame
Translations
sprinkle — see sprinkle
scatter — see scatter
to falsely charge another
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Anagrams
- Parsees, pareses, preases, preasse, seprase, serapes
Italian
Verb
asperse
- third-person singular past historic of aspergere
asperse f
- plural of asperso
Anagrams
- esparse
- paresse
- passere
- spesare
- speserà
Latin
Participle
asperse
- vocative masculine singular of aspersus