anschwärzen — meaning in English

English meaning

• backbite verb To say unkind, untrue things about someone.
• blacken verb To make something black or turn black.
• denigrate verb To criticize someone unfairly in a way that damages their reputation.

Senses

anschwärzen is used for these senses in English:

• backbite To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
• blacken To defame or sully.
• denigrate (transitive) To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
• denigrate (rare) To blacken.

backbite — full definition

1. verb To say unkind, untrue things about someone.
2. verb To criticise someone nastily while they aren't there to hear it.
3. verb To talk unkindly about someone who is not present.

blacken — full definition

1. verb To make something black or turn black.
2. verb To damage someone's reputation; to defame.
3. verb To cook fish or meat by coating it in spices and searing it quickly in a hot pan.

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