ASPERSE
- to spread false charges against [v ASPERSED, ASPERSES, ASPERSING] : ASPERSIVE [adj]
- to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander
- to sprinkle; bespatter
- to slander (to defame (to destroy the reputation of)) [v ASPERSED, ASPERSING, ASPERSES]