blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain
(noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; “he made a huge blot on his copybook”
smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur
(noun) a blemish made by dirt; “he had a smudge on his cheek”
smear, cytologic smear, cytosmear
(noun) a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
smear, vilification, malignment
(noun) slanderous defamation
defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
(verb) 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”
daub, smear
(verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; “smear the wall with paint”; “daub the ceiling with plaster”
smear, blur, smudge, smutch
(verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging
smear
(verb) stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
Source: WordNet® 3.1
smear (third-person singular simple present smears, present participle smearing, simple past and past participle smeared)
(transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
(transitive) To have a substance smeared on (a surface).
(transitive) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about an individual, their statements, or their actions.
(intransitive) To become spread by smearing.
(climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
• (spread (a substance)): spread
• (have a substance smeared on): coat, cover, layer
smear (countable and uncountable, plural smears)
A mark made by smearing.
(radio, television, uncountable) Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
(medicine) A Pap smear.
A false attack.
(climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
(music) A rough glissando in jazz music.
• (mark): streak
• (Pap smear): Pap smear, Pap test
• MASER, Mares, Marse, mares, marse, maser, mears, rames, reams
Source: Wiktionary
Smear, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smeared; p. pr. & vb. n. Smearing.] Etym: [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.
2. To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy. Shak.
Smear, n. Etym: [OE. smere,. smeoru fat, grease; akin to D. smeer, G. schmeer, OHG. smero, Icel. smjör, Sw. & Dan. smör butter, Goth. smaĂr fatness, smarna dung; cf. Lith. smarsas fat. Cf. Smirch.]
1. A fat, oily substance; oinment. Johnson.
2. Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain. Slow broke the morn, All damp and rolling vapor, with no sun, But in its place a moving smear of light. Alexander Smith.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
