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smut
 
Noun smut has 4 senses
  1. carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut - a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
    --1 is a kind of carbon, C, atomic number 6
    Derived form: verb smut2
  2. smut - destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
    --2 is a kind of     plant disease
    --2 has particulars:
     loose smut; bunt, stinking smut; flag smut; green smut, false smut
    Derived forms: verb smut4, verb smut3
  3. smut, smut fungus - any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
    --3 is a kind of fungus
    --3 is a member of Ustilaginales, order Ustilaginales
    --3 has particulars:
     covered smut; loose smut; cornsmut, corn smut; Sphacelotheca, genus Sphacelotheca; head smut, Sphacelotheca reiliana; bunt, Tilletia caries; bunt, stinking smut, Tilletia foetida; onion smut, Urocystis cepulae; flag smut fungus
    Derived forms: verb smut4, verb smut3
  4. pornography, porno, porn, erotica, smut - creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
    --4 is a kind of creation, creative activity
    --4 has particulars: child pornography, kiddie porn, kiddy porn
    Derived form: verb smut1
Verb smut has 4 senses
  1. smut - make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
    --1 is one way to     change, alter, modify
    Derived form: noun smut4
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. smut - stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
    --2 is one way to     stain
    Derived form: noun smut1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. smut - become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"
    --3 is one way to     mold, mildew
    Derived forms: noun smut3, noun smut2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  4. smut - affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
    --4 is one way to     infect, taint
    Derived forms: noun smut3, noun smut2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
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