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Disgrace vs Smirch - What's the difference?

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Disgrace is a related term of smirch.


As nouns the difference between disgrace and smirch

is that disgrace is disgrace while smirch is dirt.

As a verb smirch is

to.

disgrace

English

(wikipedia disgrace)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Macduff lives in disgrace .
  • The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
  • That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
  • (obsolete) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • the interchange continually of favours and disgraces

    Related terms

    * disgraceful * disgraceless

    Verb

  • To disrespect another; to put someone out of favor.

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    smirch

    English

    Etymology 1

    Attested since the 15th Century .

    Noun

  • Dirt
  • * 1998 , Michael Foss, People of the First Crusade , page 6, ISBN 1559704551.
  • *:Too often, in the years between 800 and 1050, the everyday sun declined through the smirch of flame and smoke of a monastery or town robbed and burnt.
  • (of a reputation) Stain
  • * 2008 , W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk , page 33, ISBN 1604502061.
  • *:there were some business transactions which savored of dangerous speculation, if not dishonesty; and around it all lay the smirch of the Freedmen's Bank.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To .
  • * 1600 , Scene III
    • CELIA. I'll put myself in poor and mean attire,
    And with a kind of umber smirch my face;
    The like do you; so shall we pass along,
    And never stir assailants.
    Synonyms
    * besmirch * soil
    Derived terms
    * besmirch

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    Etymology 2

    Meld of smear and chirp
  • A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance om its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)
  • *2003 , B. S. Sathyaprakash, BF Schutz, "Templates for stellar mass black holes falling into supermassive black holes", Classical and Quantum Gravity , volume 20, no. 10
  • *:The strain h''(''t'') produced by a smirch in LISA is given by ''h''(''t'') = −-''A''(''t'')cos[(''t'') + ?(''t )]
  • *2005 , John M. T. Thompson, Advances in Astronomy: From the Big Bang to the Solar System , page 133, ISBN 1860945775.
  • *:By observing a smirch , LISA offers a unique opportunity to directly map the spacetime geometry around the central object and test whether or not this structure is in accordance with the expectations of general realtivity.

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