Smear




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Smear \Smear\ (sm[=e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smeared
(sm[=e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Smearing.] [OE. smeren,
smerien, AS. smierwan, smyrwan, fr. smeoru fat, grease; akin
to D. smeren, OHG. smirwen, G. schmieren, Icel. smyrja to
anoint. See Smear, n.]

1. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or
adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. "Smear
the sleepy grooms with blood." --Shak.
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2. To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain
morally; as, to be smeared with infamy. --Shak.
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3. To smudge, blur, or render indistinct (writing, pictures,
etc.).
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4. to vilify (a person); to damage (a person's reputation),
especially falsely or by unfair innuendo, and with
malicious intent.
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Smear \Smear\, n. [OE. smere,. smeoru fat, grease; akin to D.
smeer, G. schmeer, OHG. smero, Icel. smj["o]r, Sw. & Dan.
sm["o]r butter, Goth. sma['i]r[thorn]r fatness, smarna dung;
cf. Lith. smarsas fat. Cf. Smirch.]

1. A fat, oily substance; oinment. --Johnson.
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2. Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive
substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.
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Slow broke the morn,
All damp and rolling vapor, with no sun,
But in its place a moving smear of light.
--Alexander
Smith.
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smear
n 1: slanderous defamation [syn: smear, vilification,
malignment]

2: a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and
stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a
microscope [syn: smear, cytologic smear, cytosmear]

3: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn:
smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur]

4: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he
made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: blot, smear,
smirch, spot, stain]
v 1: stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance

2: make a smudge on; soil by smudging [syn: smear, blur,
smudge, smutch]

3: cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; "smear
the wall with paint"; "daub the ceiling with plaster" [syn:
daub, smear]

4: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name
and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!"
"The article in the paper sullied my reputation" [syn:
defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate,
calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch]
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smear [smiər]
enduire; étaler; étendre

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smear [smiər]
sauzen; smeren; besmeren; doorsmeren

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smear [smiər]
lambuzar, rebocar, ungir, untar

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smear

anschmieren; schmieren; verschmieren
smear

verwischen; wischen
smear

Abstrich m [med.]
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228 Moby Thesaurus words for "smear":
anoint, apply paint, asperse, aspersion, attack, attaint,
badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, beat, bedaub, bedizen,
beeswax, befoul, begild, begrime, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch,
besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, black, black eye,
black mark, blacken, blackening, blank, bloodstain, blot, blotch,
blow upon, blur, brand, broad arrow, brush on paint, bulldoze,
butter, calcimine, call names, calumniate, calumny, censure,
champain, character assassination, clobber, coat, color,
complexion, cover, cream, dab, darken, daub, deep-dye, defamation,
defamation of character, defame, defeat utterly, defile,
defilement, denigrate, denigration, dip, dirty, disapprove,
discolor, discredit, disparage, disparagement, distemper,
double-dye, dress, drub, dye, emblazon, embrocate, enamel,
engage in personalities, engild, expose, expose to infamy, eyesore,
face, fast-dye, fleck, flick, flyspeck, foil, fresco, frustrate,
gibbet, gild, glaze, gloss, glycerolate, grain, grease,
grease the wheels, hang in effigy, heap dirt upon, hue, illuminate,
imbue, imputation, ingrain, japan, lacquer, lambaste, lard, lay on,
lay on color, libel, lick, lubricate, macula, maculation, macule,
malicious defamation, mark, mark of Cain, muckrake, muckraking,
mudslinging, name-calling, oil, onus, overbear, overlay,
overspread, overwhelm, paint, parget, paste, patch, pigment,
pillory, pillorying, plaster, point champain, pomade, prime,
reflection, reprimand, reproach, repulse, revile, revilement, rub,
salve, scandal, scandalize, schmear, scorch, sear, shade, shadow,
shellac, shut out, singe, skunk, slander, slap on, slather, slick,
slick on, slop on paint, slubber, slur, smear campaign, smear on,
smear word, smirch, smoke, smooth the way, smother, smouch, smudge,
smut, smutch, snow under, soap the ways, soil, soilage, soilure,
spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, spread,
spread on, spread with, stain, steamroller, stigma, stigmatism,
stigmatization, stigmatize, stipple, sully, taint, tar, tarnish,
thrash, throw mud at, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, trim,
undercoat, unguent, varnish, vilification, vilify, wash, wax,
whelm, whitewash, whomp, whop, wipe



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