Usually means: Chemical reaction darkening metal surfaces.
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  1. tarnishing: Merriam-Webster
  2. tarnishing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tarnishing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tarnishing, tarnishing: Wordnik
  5. tarnishing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tarnishing: Wiktionary
  7. tarnishing: Dictionary.com
  8. tarnishing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Tarnishing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Tarnishing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Tarnishing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. tarnishing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. tarnishing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. tarnishing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarnishing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarnishing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarnishing: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tarnishing)

noun:  The act by which something is tarnished.

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