- Discolour - Discolour by changing the original varnish - Lose lustre - Lose lustre, discolour - Stain (reputation) - To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an
alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish,
dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to
tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of color. - To lose luster; to become dull; as, gilding will
tarnish in a foul air.
- Darken - Make dirty - Stain (reputation) - Tarnish - To soil or stain - To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to
darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to
sully a person's reputation. - To become soiled or tarnished.
- A smudge - Become unfocused - Fuzzy picture - Hazy and indistinct - Hazy memory of making trouble and losing digit - ill defined spot - Ill-defined spot