smudging

/ ˈsmʌdʒɪŋ /

noun

a traditional Native American method of using smoke from burning herbs to purify a space

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She obsessed about keeping her hair dry and avoided smudging her makeup at all costs.

I like taking that old Hollywood idea and putting rock and roll on top of it and messing it up and smudging it.

The rubbing, or rather smudging, from which the inscription was copied being nearly wholly illegible, accounts for the mistakes.

Beyond glinted the blue of the sea flecked with sails and with here and there a steamer's smoke smudging the horizon.

The failure to attend to smudging, even on one occasion, may result in the loss of the entire crop of plums, apples or pears.

Was it the smudging shadows, the still unlighted mass of them up there on the arms of the crucifix?

He left off drawing birds on branches and drew them only in flight, smudging in a blue background for the sky.

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