smeared

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smear

(smîr)

v. smeared, smear·ing, smears

v.tr.

a. To spread or daub (a surface, for example) with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance.

b. To apply by spreading or daubing: smeared suntan lotion on my face and arms.

c. To cause to be blurry or spread in unwanted places: The ink on the poster was smeared.

2. To stain or attempt to destroy the reputation of; vilify: political enemies who smeared his name.

3. Slang To defeat utterly.

v.intr.

To spread easily in an undesired way: This mascara smears when it gets wet.

1. A mark made by smearing; a spot or blot.

2. A substance to be spread on a surface.

3. Biology A sample, as of blood or bacterial cells, spread on a slide for microscopic examination or on the surface of a culture medium.

a. Vilification or slander.

b. A vilifying or slanderous remark.

[Middle English smeren, to anoint, from Old English smerian.]

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adjective filthy, soiled, dirty, muddy, messy, grubby, sullied, grimy, unclean, mucky, grotty (slang), grungy (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), scuzzy (slang, chiefly U.S.), begrimed, skanky (slang) long, smeared windows

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"Do you remember when the smeared bit was done, sir?" asked the Sergeant.

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Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated.

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Passepartout jumped off the box and followed his master, who, after paying the cabman, was about to enter the station, when a poor beggar-woman, with a child in her arms, her naked feet smeared with mud, her head covered with a wretched bonnet, from which hung a tattered feather, and her shoulders shrouded in a ragged shawl, approached, and mournfully asked for alms.