besmall

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make small

   To make small; (figurative) to make as though small.

   • And loneliness balked my pride, my innate pride, my integral native being, besmalling me all the more, until I couldn't remember myself the way I did last year and the years before.
   • "Weariness too faltered my conscience . . . besmalling me."
   • The besmalled position shocks Tusker to fell sick for a long time and finally die when he is asked to vacate the Lodge.

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