Clues for the word "TARNISH"
We've had 30 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 63 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 19, 2025.
Definition of tarnish
- a. - To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of color.
- v. i. - To lose luster; to become dull; as, gilding will tarnish in a foul air.
- n. - The quality or state of being tarnished; stain; soil; blemish.
- n. - A thin film on the surface of a metal, usually due to a slight alteration of the original color; as, the steel tarnish in columbite.
Referring Clues
- Lose luster
- Stain, as a reputation
- Sully
- Silver flaw
- Taint
- Besmirch
- Corrosion layer
- Lose lustre
- Discolour - sully
- Dirty, like a small lake?
- Spot, a bit like a mountain lake
- Lake is hot with discolouration
- What the French call a "film noir"?
- Take the gloss off
- Lose shine
- Water is hot and showing discolouration
- Something you didn't polish off on your plate
- Discolour, stain
- Discolor
- Something you'll want to polish off, on your plate
- Damage (reputation)
- Discolour
- Blacken
- Become discolored, as silverware
- Stain
- Sully, as a reputation
- Soil
- It's black with a silver background
- Certain outer coating
- Damage, as one's reputation
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 17, 2025
- Daily American - November 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 18, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 18, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 17, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 23, 2025
- Daily American - April 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 14, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 18, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 13, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 15, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - June 09, 2024
- Daily American - November 16, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 22, 2023
- Your Life Choices - July 03, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 02, 2023
- Daily American - April 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 31, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - March 17, 2023
- Mirror Daily - March 15, 2023
- Your Life Choices - February 06, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - January 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 02, 2022
- Family Time - October 17, 2022
- Mirror Daily - August 27, 2022
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