transcription, транскрипция: [ tɑ:(r)nɪʃ ]
( tarnishes, tarnishing, tarnished)
1.
If you say that something tarnishes someone’s reputation or image, you mean that it causes people to have a worse opinion of them than they would otherwise have had.
The affair could tarnish the reputation of the prime minister...
VERB : V n
• tar‧nished
He says he wants to improve the tarnished image of his country.
ADJ
2.
If a metal tarnishes or if something tarnishes it, it becomes stained and loses its brightness.
It never rusts or tarnishes...
Wear cotton gloves when cleaning silver, because the acid in your skin can tarnish the metal.
VERB : V , V n
• tar‧nished
...its brown surfaces of tarnished brass.
ADJ
3.
Tarnish is a substance which forms of the surface of some metals and which stains them or causes them to lose their brightness.
N-UNCOUNT