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Noun smear has 4 senses
- smear, vilification, malignment - slanderous defamation
--1 is a kind of defamation, calumny, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job
- 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
--2 is a kind of cytologic specimen
--2 has particulars:
- smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur - a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
--3 is a kind of blemish, defect, mar
--3 has particulars:
- blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain - an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"
--4 is a kind of mistake, error, fault
Verb smear has 4 senses
- smear - stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
--1 is one way to dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- smear, blur, smudge, smutch - make a smudge on; soil by smudging
--2 is one way to rub
Sample sentences:
The children smear the paper with grease
The children smear grease onto the paper
- daub, smear - cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; "smear the wall with paint"; "daub the ceiling with plaster"
--3 is one way to cover
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- 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"
--4 is one way to charge, accuse
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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