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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
maculate \mac"ulate\, a. l. maculatus, p. p.
marked with spots or maculae; blotched; hence, defiled;
impure; as, most maculate thoughts. --shak.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
maculate \mac"ulate\, 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
see also:
macula macule
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
maculate
adj 1: morally blemished; stained or impure syn: defiled
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,
sully, defile
2: spot, stain, or pollute; "the townspeople defiled the river
by emptying raw sewage into it" syn: foul, befoul, defile
see also:
defiled tarnish stain sully defile foul
befoul
- [4] : 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
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