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Definitions for Smear

[1] to spread or daub (an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance) on or over something: to smear butter on bread.
[2] to spread or daub an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance on: to smear bread with butter.
[3] to stain, spot, or make dirty with something oily, greasy, viscous, or wet.
[4] to sully, vilify, or soil (a reputation, good name, etc.).
[5] to smudge or blur, as by rubbing: The signature was smeared.
[6] Slang . to defeat decisively; overwhelm: They smeared the home team.
[7] an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
[8] a stain, spot, or mark made by such a substance.
[9] a smudge.
[10] something smeared or to be smeared on a thing, as a glaze for pottery.
[11] a small quantity of something spread thinly on a slide for microscopic examination.
[12] vilification: a smear by a cheap gossip columnist.
[13] to bedaub or cover with oil, grease, etc
[14] to rub over or apply thickly
[15] to rub so as to produce a smudge
[16] to slander
[17] US slang to defeat completely
[18] (intr) to be or become smeared or dirtied
[19] a dirty mark or smudge
[20] a slanderous attack (as modifier ) smear tactics
[21] a preparation of blood, secretions, etc, smeared onto a glass slide for examination under a microscope

Words related to Smear

sully, sprinkle, dab, tarnish, coat, plaster, smudge, taint, daub, spray, spatter, blur, stain, besmirch, tar, malign, blacken, defame, slander, vilify

Words nearby Smear

smattering, smatv, smaze, smd, sme, smear, smear campaign, smear culture, smear test, smear word, smear-sheet

Origin of Smear

before 900; (v.) Middle English smeren, smirien to rub with fat, anoint, Old English smirian, smerian, smerwan; cognate with Dutch smeren, German schmieren, Old Norse smyrja, smyrwa; (noun) in current senses derivative of the v.; compare obsolete smear fat, grease, ointment, Middle English smere, Old English smeoru, cognate with Dutch smear, German Schmer, Old Norse smjǫr grease, Greek smýris rubbing powder; see emery

Other words from Smear

smear·er , noun
un·smeared , adjective

Word origin for Smear

Old English smeoru (n); related to Old Norse smjör fat, Old High German smero, Greek muron ointment

Synonyms for Smear

besmirch, blur, coat, dab, daub, plaster, smudge, spatter, spray, sprinkle, stain, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, apply, bedaub, cover, defile, dirty, discolor, overlay, overspread, patch, slop, soil