Smear

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To spread or daub (a surface, for example) with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance.
  • intransitive verb. To apply by spreading or daubing.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to be blurry or spread in unwanted places.
  • intransitive verb. To stain or attempt to destroy the reputation of; vilify.
  • intransitive verb. To defeat utterly.
  • intransitive verb. To spread easily in an undesired way.
  • noun. A mark made by smearing; a spot or blot.
  • noun. A substance to be spread on a surface.
  • noun. A sample, as of blood or bacterial cells, spread on a slide for microscopic examination or on the surface of a culture medium.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Vilification or slander.
  • noun. A vilifying or slanderous remark.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To give a gloss to (pottery or stoneware) without glazing, as by putting a volatile flux or glazing preparation in the kiln or in the saggar with the ware. See smearglaze and smearing.
  • noun. Fat; grease; ointment.
  • noun. A spot, blotch, or stain made by, or as if by, some unctuous substanee rubbed upon a surface.
  • noun. In sugar manufacturing, the technical term for fermentation.
  • noun. In pottery, a mixture of glazing materials in water, used for coating articles before they are placed in the saggars of the glazing-furnace.
  • To overspread with ointment; anoint.
  • To overspread thickly, irregularly, or in blotches with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; besmear; daub.
  • To overspread too thickly, especially to the violation of good taste; paint, or otherwise adorn with something applied to a surface, in a way that is overdone or tawdry.
  • To soil; contaminate; pollute.
  • Synonyms To bedaub, begrime.
  • To tarnish, sully.
  • noun. The soft, semi-fluid mud of calcium sulphate left in the generators when whiting and sulphuric acid were used to produce carbon-dioxid gas in the manufacture of aërated waters.
  • noun. In bacteriology, a preparation of bacteria for microscopical examination made by smearing the organisms upon a slide or cover-glass. Also called spread. See culture.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub.
  • transitive verb. To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally.
  • transitive verb. To smudge, blur, or render indistinct (writing, pictures, etc.).
  • transitive verb. to vilify (a person); to damage (a person's reputation), especially falsely or by unfair innuendo, and with malicious intent.
  • noun. A fat, oily substance; oinment.
  • noun. Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
  • verb. To have a substance smeared on (a surface).
  • verb. To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about an individual, their statements, or their actions.
  • verb. To become spread by smearing.
  • noun. A mark made by smearing.
  • noun. A Pap smear.
  • noun. A false attack.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
  • verb. make a smudge on; soil by smudging
  • noun. a blemish made by dirt
  • verb. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
  • verb. stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
  • noun. slanderous defamation
  • noun. an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
  • noun. a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
  • Word Usage
    "More like “The smear starts here, constantly recited without any evidence, and when I am refuted, I call the watchdogs ‘vile’ and ’smear machines’ to motivate my braindead viewers/listeners to do what I want them to do.”"
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    blob  blot  blur  dab  droplet  
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