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Smear   /smɪr/   Listen
Smear

noun
1.
Slanderous defamation.  Synonyms: malignment, vilification.
2.
A thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope.  Synonyms: cytologic smear, cytosmear.
3.
A blemish made by dirt.  Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smirch, smudge, spot.
4.
An act that brings discredit to the person who does it.  Synonyms: blot, smirch, spot, stain.
verb
(past & past part. smeared; pres. part. smearing)
1.
Stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance.
2.
Make a smudge on; soil by smudging.  Synonyms: blur, smudge, smutch.
3.
Cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it.  Synonym: daub.  "Daub the ceiling with plaster"
4.
Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone.  Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smirch, sully.  "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"



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"Smear" Quotes from Famous Books



... friend with Barnaby's mother. He knew the Maypole story of the widow Rudge—how her husband, employed at Chigwell, and his master had been murdered; and how her son, born upon the very day the deed was known, bore upon his wrist a smear of blood but half ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol III • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... the people coming back from the fair. Shut the door, Mary; I wouldn't like them to see how bare the house is; and I'll put a smear of ashes on the window, the way they won't see ...
— Poets and Dreamers - Studies and translations from the Irish • Lady Augusta Gregory and Others
... too pleased to crumple up a crape frill and to smear a black dress with sticky little fingers for the sake of the sugar which Hetty plied ...
— A World of Girls - The Story of a School • L. T. Meade
... trodden places, bent and broken blades of the coarse grass, and ever and again the sufficient intimation of a footmark. And once the leader saw a brown smear of blood where the half-caste girl may have trod. And at that under his breath he ...
— Twelve Stories and a Dream • H. G. Wells
... Chief ordered him to throw away his now ragged garments, smear his whole body over with oil and red earth, paint black spots on his cheeks, and a white streak down his nose, and put on warrior's costume. In vain Jarwin begged and protested and sang. The Big Chief's blood was up, and his commands must be obeyed, therefore Jarwin did as he was ...
— Jarwin and Cuffy • R.M. Ballantyne


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