Dictionary Entry
smear
smear is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
- 2noun
To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
- 3noun
A fat, oily substance; oinment.
- 4noun
Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.
- 5noun
an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
"he made a huge blot on his copybook"
- 6noun
a blemish made by dirt
"he had a smudge on his cheek"
- 7noun
a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
- 8noun
slanderous defamation
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- 9verb
charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
"The journalists have defamed me!"
- 10verb
cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
"smear the wall with paint"
"daub the ceiling with plaster"
Synonyms
- 11verb
make a smudge on; soil by smudging
- 12verb
stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
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