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Showing words for ASPERSE using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Asperse

asperse, pareses, praeses, preases, preasse, serapes

6 Letter Words for Asperse

aspers, easers, erases, essera, parsee, parses, passee, passer, peares, persea, perses, prases, prease, preses, repass, repses, serape, spaers, spares, sparse, spears, speers, sperse, sprees

5 Letter Words for Asperse

apers, apres, apses, asper, easer, eases, erase, erses, pares, parse, pases, passe, peare, pears, peers, perea, peres, perse, prase, prees, presa, press, rapes, rasps, rasse, reaps, repas, seare, sears, sease, seeps, seers, seres, spaer, spaes, spare, spars, spear, speer, spree

4 Letter Words for Asperse

aper, apes, apse, ares, asps, asse, ears, ease, eras, eres, erse, eses, esse, pare, pars, pase, pass, pear, peas, peer, pees, pere, pers, pesa, pess, pree, pres, rape, raps, rasp, reap, rees, reps, resp, saps, sare, sars, sear, seas, seep, seer, sees, seps, sere, sers, sese, spae, spar, spas

3 Letter Words for Asperse

aer, aes, ape, apr, are, ars, ase, asp, ass, ear, eas, eer, epa, era, ere, ers, ese, esp, esr, ess, par, pas, pea, pee, per, pes, pre, prs, rap, ras, rea, ree, rep, res, rps, sap, sar, sea, see, sep, ser, spa, sps, sse, ssp

Definitions for Asperse

[1] to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
[2] to sprinkle; bespatter.
[3] to spread false rumours about; defame
[4] rare to sprinkle, as with water in baptism

Words related to Asperse

vilify, slur, smear, blacken, malign, defame, slander, detract, disparage

Words nearby Asperse

aspergillum, aspergillus, asperity, aspermatism, aspermia, asperse, aspersion, aspersorium, asphalt, asphalt jungle, asphalt paper

Origin of Asperse

1480–90; < Latin aspersus besprinkled (past participle of aspergere ), equivalent to a- a-5 + -sper- (combining form of spar-, variant of sparg- sparge) + -sus, variant of -tus past participle suffix

Other words from Asperse

as·pers·er , noun
as·per·sive , adjective
as·per·sive·ly , adverb
un·as·persed , adjective
un·as·per·sive , adjective

Word origin for Asperse

C15: from Latin aspersus, from aspergere to sprinkle

Synonyms for Asperse

blacken, defame, detract, disparage, malign, slander, slur, smear, vilify, cast aspersions on, tear down