0 to make or (especially of metal) become less bright or a different colour
1 to make people think that someone or something is less good:
2 (of metal surfaces) to become less bright or a different color:
[ T ] The scandal has tarnished the agency’s reputation.
In his view, this produced better results because the companies wished to avoid their respectability being tarnished.
Although that image is tarnished now, the damage to public confidence in, and support for, state pensions may be hard to reverse.
Moreover, a combination of ineptness and outright corruption tarnished relief efforts across the states.
However, in the reader's critical distance from the novel and its events, his sympathy is tarnished by his rational upbringing.
The president justifies a greater role for himself by tarnishing the legitimacy and representative nature of the legislative branch as a competitor for power.
As a result, auditors themselves may be held liable facing civil lawsuits tarnishing their reputation and causing financial distress.
The reputation of the metropolitan police who took the final decision to disperse the meeting was tarnished by this episode.
In his interviews, the belief that self-interests tarnished the purity of the struggle is strong.
中文繁体
金屬, (使)(尤指金屬)失去光澤,(使)變暗淡, (使)褪色…
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金属, (使)(尤指金属)失去光泽,(使)变暗淡, (使)褪色…
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deslustrar(se), poner(se) negro, empañar…
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embaciar, manchar…
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lekelemek, kirletmek, karar(t)mak…
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(se) ternir, ternissure…
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zmatnit, ztratit lesk, matnost…
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løbe an, anløbethed…
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