anschwärzen
denigrate, to blacker, to calumniate, blacken, to blacken, to denigrateanschwärzen
karartmakạn+schwär|zen
vt sep (fig inf) jdn anschwärzen →
to blacken sb’s name (bei with);
(= denunzieren) →
to run sb down (bei to) Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007