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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically;
- Example: "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"
- Example: "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
[syn: tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, defile]

2. spot, stain, or pollute;
- Example: "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
[syn: foul, befoul, defile, maculate]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. morally blemished; stained or impure;
[syn: defiled, maculate]

2. spotted or blotched;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Maculate \Mac"u*late\, v. t. [L. maculatus, p. p. of maculare to spot. See Macula, and cf. Macule, v.] To spot; to stain; to blur. [1913 Webster] Maculate the honor of their people. --Sir T. Elyot. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Maculate \Mac"u*late\, a. [L. maculatus, p. p.] Marked with spots or maculae; blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

maculate adj 1: morally blemished; stained or impure [syn: defiled, maculate] 2: spotted or blotched v 1: make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man" [syn: tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, defile] 2: spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it" [syn: foul, befoul, defile, maculate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

51 Moby Thesaurus words for "maculate": besmirched, bespangled, bespeckled, blotched, blotchy, defiled, dotted, dotty, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, frecked, freckle-faced, freckled, freckly, impure, indecent, macular, maculated, patchy, peppered, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, punctated, smirched, soiled, spangled, spattered, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splashed, splattered, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, stippled, studded, sullied, tainted, unchaste, unclean, unvirginal, unvirtuous