(~es, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If you say that something ~es 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 ~ the reputation of the prime minister...
VERB: V n
~ed
He says he wants to improve the ~ed image of his country.
ADJ
2.
If a metal ~es or if something ~es it, it becomes stained and loses its brightness.
It never rusts or ~es...
Wear cotton gloves when cleaning silver, because the acid in your skin can ~ the metal.
VERB: V, V n
~ed
...its brown surfaces of ~ed 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.
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