colly

• Verbo anticuado que significa ennegrecer con hollín o tizne, o volverse negro; también se usa en sentido figurado para denotar oscurecimiento o mancillamiento.

An obsolete verb meaning to blacken with coal dust or soot, or to become blackened; also used figuratively to mean to darken or sully.

1. Make dirty or soiledC2formalbritish

   To make something dirty, stained, or filthy.

   Ensuciar

   • The coal dust colly the workers' clothes.
   • The children colly their hands while playing in the mud.
   • The smoke from the factory colly the nearby buildings.

   Sinónimosbefoulbegrimeblackendirtysmirchsmudgesoilstainsullytarnish

   Antónimoscleanlaunderpurifywash