Tarnish is defined as to spoil or to discolor the surface of a piece of metal.
(verb)An example of to tarnish is to expose silver to sulfur and air.
See tarnish in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb
Origin: < Fr terniss-, inflectional stem of ternir, to make dim < MFr, prob. < OHG tarnjan, to conceal < tarni, hidden
intransitive verb
noun
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See tarnish in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb tar·nished, tar·nish·ing, tar·nish·es verb, transitive
Origin:
Origin: Middle English ternisshen
Origin: , from Old French ternir, terniss-, to dull
Origin: , from terne, dull
Origin: , of Germanic origin
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