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Definition of 'smear'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) smear
to spread or daub (an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance) on or over something:
to smear butter on bread.

2.  smear
to spread or daub an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance on.

3.  smear
to stain, spot, or make dirty with something oily, greasy, viscous, or wet.

4.  smear
to sully, vilify, or soil (a reputation, good name, etc.).

5.  smear
to smudge or blur, as by rubbing:
The signature was smeared.

6.  smear
Slang. to defeat decisively; overwhelm.

7. (n.) smear
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, esp. a dab of such a substance.

8.  smear
a stain, spot, or mark made by such a substance.

9.  smear
a smudge.

10.  smear
vilification; defamation.

11.  smear
something smeared or to be smeared on a thing, as a glaze for pottery.

12.  smear
a small quantity of something spread thinly on a slide for microscopic examination.

Etymology: (bef. 900; (v.) ME smeren, smirien to rub with fat, anoint, OE smirian, c. OHG smirwen, ON smyrja, smyrwa)

Definition of 'smear'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) smear, vilification, malignment
slanderous defamation

2. (noun) smear, cytologic smear, cytosmear
a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope

3. (noun) smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur
a blemish made by dirt
"he had a smudge on his cheek"

4. (verb) blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain
an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
"he made a huge blot on his copybook"

5. (verb) smear
stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance

6. (verb) smear, blur, smudge, smutch
make a smudge on; soil by smudging

7. (verb) daub, smear
cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
"smear the wall with paint"; "daub the ceiling with plaster"

8. (verb) defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
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"

Definition of 'smear'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) smear
to spread onto a surface
The baby smeared chocolate all over her face.; their white shirts were smeared with blood

2. smear
to try to damage sb's reputation by saying unkind or untrue things
lies he told to smear his political enemies

3. (noun) smear
a mark on the surface of sth
a smear of yellow paint

4. smear
an attempt to smear sb's reputation
smear tactics; a smear campaign

Definition of 'smear'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) smear
to overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil

2. (noun) smear
to soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy

3. (noun) smear
a fat, oily substance; oinment

4. (noun) smear
hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain

Translation of 'smear'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to spread (something sticky or oily) over a surface The little boy smeared jam on the chair.
Afrikaans: smeer	Arabic: يَدْهَن، يَطْلي	Bulgarian: мажа
Brazilian: espalhar	Czech: pomazat, umazat	German: schmieren
Danish: smøre	Greek: πασαλείβω, απλώνω	Spanish: untar, embadurnar
Estonian: määrima	Farsi: ماليدن	Finnish: levittää
French: barbouiller	Hebrew: לִמרוֹחַ	Hindi: लीपना, पोतना, फैलाना, प्र
Croatian: zamazati, zamastiti	Hungarian: beken	Indonesian: mengoleskan
Icelandic: smyrja, ata	Italian: spalmare	Japanese: 塗りつける
Korean: (끈적끈적 한 것, 기름기 있는 것 등을) 묻	Lithuanian: išterlioti	Latvian: []smērēt; notriept
Malay: sapu	Dutch: smeren	Norwegian: smøre (på), tilgrise
Polish: smarować	Persian: ماليدن	Pashto: داغ: غوړول، ككړول، خيرنول
Portuguese: espalhar	Romanian: a păta	Russian: мазать, размазывать
Slovak: zamazať, zašpiniť	Slovenian: namazati	Serbian: razmazati
Swedish: smeta	Thai: ละเลง	Turkish: sürmek, sıvamak
Taiwanese: 塗抹(油或黏性物)	Ukrainian: розмазати	Urdu: دھبّا لگانا، چکنا یا داغد
Vietnamese: làm vấy bẩn, làm hoen ố	Chinese: 涂抹（油或粘性物）
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