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third-person singular simple present asperses, present participle aspersing, simple past and past participle aspersed
To sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust). quotations examples
a hand in San Marco's font / aspersed him with foul canal water
2004, Derek Walcott, The Prodigal, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, page 102
To falsely or maliciously charge another; to slander. quotations examples
This is indeed a most aggravating circumstance, which attends depriving men unjustly 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 such as affect his conversation, unless where a perfect intimacy must have convinced them that their friend’s character hath been falsely and injuriously aspersed.
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […]