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maculate   (TTS Sound)

The verb maculate has 2 senses

• tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, defile -- (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")


• foul, befoul, defile, maculate -- (spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it")

The adj maculate has 2 senses

• defiled, maculate -- (morally blemished; stained or impure)


• maculate -- (spotted or blotched)