"asperse" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004, Derek Walcott, The Prodigal, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, page 102:",
          "text": "a hand in San Marco's font / aspersed him with foul canal water",
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        "To sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust)."
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          "ref": "1710 April 29 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [pseudonym; Joseph Addison; Richard Steele], “Tuesday, April 18, 1710”, in The Tatler, number 160; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume II, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC, page 409:",
          "text": "It hath always been my way to baffle reproach with silence; though I cannot but observe the disingenuous proceedings of this gentleman, who is not content to asperse my writings, but hath wounded, through my sides, those eminent and worthy citizens, Mr. John Morphew, and Mr. Bernard Lintot.",
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          "text": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 8, Chapter 8, pp. 126-127,\nThis is indeed a most aggravating Circumstance, which attends unjustly depriving Men of their Reputation; for a Man who is Conscious of having an ill Character, cannot justly be angry with those who neglect and slight him; but ought rather to despise those that affect his Conversation, unless where a perfect Intimacy must have convinced them that their Friend’s Character hath been falsely and injuriously aspersed."
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          "ref": "1844, Charles Dickens, chapter 32, in Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, page 394:",
          "text": "If any one had taxed him with the vice, he would have indignantly repelled the accusation, and conceived himself unworthily aspersed.",
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        "To falsely or maliciously charge someone."
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          "charge",
          "charge"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "slander"
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          "roman": "klevetja",
          "sense": "to falsely charge another",
          "word": "клеветя"
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          "sense": "to falsely charge another",
          "word": "calunniare"
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          "sense": "to falsely charge another",
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          "text": "It hath always been my way to baffle reproach with silence; though I cannot but observe the disingenuous proceedings of this gentleman, who is not content to asperse my writings, but hath wounded, through my sides, those eminent and worthy citizens, Mr. John Morphew, and Mr. Bernard Lintot.",
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        },
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      "sense": "to falsely charge another",
      "word": "клеветя"
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      "sense": "to falsely charge another",
      "word": "calunniare"
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      "sense": "to falsely charge another",
      "word": "diffamare"
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