Word Finder - smearing

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To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.

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The artist smeared paint over the canvas in broad strokes.

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To have a substance smeared on (a surface).

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She smeared her lips with lipstick.

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To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about an individual, their statements, or their actions.

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The opposition party attempted to smear the candidate by spreading incorrect and unverifiable rumors about their personal behavior.

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To become spread by smearing.

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The paint is still wet — don't touch it or it will smear.

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To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.

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Something smeared or daubed.

The woman sprawled atop him shook, her blood smearing his hands.

After smearing peanut butter and jam on whole wheat bread for a lunch on the fly, Dean knocked on Martha's door.

If you're stamping several different images on your project, work from top to bottom to avoid accidentally smearing your work.

Smearing with gypsum (Tiravos, titanos) had a similar purifying effect, and it has been suggested that the Titans were no more than old-world votaries who had so disguised themselves.

Two pieces of amber may be united by smearing the surfaces with linseed oil, heating them, and then pressing them together while hot.

In Malwa a flat scraper is employed, a small piece of cotton soaked in linseed oil being attached to the upper part of the blade, and used for smearing the thumb and edge of the scraper to prevent adhesion of the juice; sometimes water is used instead of oil, but both practices injure the quality of the product.

Sharks are caught in enormous numbers with hook and harpoon; the flesh is considered by some to have aphrodisiacal properties; the dried fins and tails are exported to China; the oil is used for smearing boats.

The web arrangement consists of a series the high over-feedboard, and the taking-off apparatus is automatic but on a different plan from that of the ordinary Wharfedale, the sheets being carried over tapes with the freshly-printed side uppermost, thus preventing smearing; they are then carried on to the heap or pile by the frame or long arms placed at the end of the machine.

Sometimes the patient is put to bed and the circulation is encouraged, especially on the surface of the body, by the use of hot spirits and water, or opium and ipecacuanha, while the outside of the nose is protected to a certain extent from loss of heat, and consequent irritation, by smearing it with a tallow candle or rubbing some ointment over the skin.