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smear
[ smeer ]
verb (used with object)
- to spread or daub (an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance) on or over something:
to smear butter on bread.
- to spread or daub an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance on:
to smear bread with butter.
- to stain, spot, or make dirty with something oily, greasy, viscous, or wet.
- to sully, vilify, or soil (a reputation, good name, etc.).
- to smudge or blur, as by rubbing:
The signature was smeared.
- Slang. to defeat decisively; overwhelm:
They smeared the home team.
noun
- an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- a stain, spot, or mark made by such a substance.
- a smudge.
- something smeared or to be smeared on a thing, as a glaze for pottery.
- a small quantity of something spread thinly on a slide for microscopic examination.
- vilification:
a smear by a cheap gossip columnist.
smear
/ smɪə /
verb
- to bedaub or cover with oil, grease, etc
- to rub over or apply thickly
- to rub so as to produce a smudge
- to slander
- slang.to defeat completely
- intr to be or become smeared or dirtied
noun
- a dirty mark or smudge
- a slanderous attack
- ( as modifier )
smear tactics
- a preparation of blood, secretions, etc, smeared onto a glass slide for examination under a microscope
Derived Forms
- ˈsmearer, noun
Other Words From
- smearer noun
- un·smeared adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of smear1
Word History and Origins
Origin of smear1
Example Sentences
Robyn was in her senior year of college in January 2008 when she found out she had an abnormal pap smear.
Erica was 22 when her doctor called her and said she had an abnormal pap smear.
A vicious Twitter smear campaign against the Harry Potter author may have been the work of secret agents, says one British pol.
Memorials are a crimson smear across the days—March 14, April 8, May 6, that marked our bloody spring of 2007.
The bias to protect the Clinton and smear their accusers, he added, still exists.
And then Lamb began to taste something like panic even as the first neon signs began to smear the wintry shadows.
If you will look at the paper you will observe a slight smear of blood.
And still at times she would smear him with the name of black (to his delight when he learned the reason).
A thin stream of blood ran from his mouth and dribbled down his chin and coagulated in a sticky smear upon the gun stock.
The pass had broadened into a valley, and a flat blue smear on the horizon told of earth and sky meeting beyond a plain.
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