LekhoriLekhoriTo corrupt or damage.
She tried to sully her rival’s reputation with a suggestive comment.
To become soiled or tarnished.
[G]old bears the fire, which ſilver doth not: but that is an excellency in nature, but it is nothing at all in uſe; for any dignity in uſe I know none, but that ſilvering will ſully and canker more than gilding; […]
A blemish.
You laying these ſlight ſallies on my ſonne, / As t'were a thing a little ſoyld with working, […]
From Middle English sulen, sulien (“to become dirty; to defile, pollute, taint”), from Old English sylian (“to soil, pollute; to sully”), from Proto-West Germanic *sulwōn, *sulwijan (“to make dirty; t...
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