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Smudge   /smədʒ/   Listen
Smudge

noun
1.
A smoky fire to drive away insects.
2.
A blemish made by dirt.  Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, spot.
verb
(past & past part. smudged; pres. part. smudging)
1.
Make a smudge on; soil by smudging.  Synonyms: blur, smear, smutch.



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"Smudge" Quotes from Famous Books



... the captain's gaze, saw something like a faint smudge growing on the horizon's line against the faintly tinted hue, and, even as they watched, it deepened to a ...
— All Aboard - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

... the railroad had been burnt over; it was a smudge prickly with charred stalks of weeds. Beyond the undeviating barbed-wire fences were clumps of golden rod. Only this thin hedge shut them off from the plains-shorn wheat-lands of autumn, a hundred acres ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

... once, over and beyond them, Stern saw the blue-curling smudge of the remains of the great fire by ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England

... dismounting, "is little more than a dim trail. Sorry I didn't think about it sooner, but we ought to have built a smudge fire where this road intersects the cattle trail. In case the doctor doesn't reach there by noon, I sent orders to fly a flag at the junction, and Joel to return home. But if the doctor doesn't reach there until after ...
— Wells Brothers • Andy Adams

... margravine might say to herself, "Here's Doctor Death in full diploma come to cure the wench of her infatuation." I am but quoting the coarse old woman, Richie; confusion on her and me! for I like her. It might pass in my handwriting, with a smudge for paternal grief—it might. "To Her Serene Highness the Margravine of Rippau, etc., etc., etc., in trust for the Most Exalted the Princess of Eppenwelzen-Sarkeld." I transpose or omit a title or so. "Aha!" says she, "there's verwirrung in Roy's poor head, poor fellow; the ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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