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smear

English

  1. 🔊 a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
  2. 🔊 slanderous defamation
  3. 🔊 an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
    “he made a huge blot on his copybook”
  4. 🔊 a blemish made by dirt
    “he had a smudge on his cheek”
  5. 🔊 make a smudge on
  6. 🔊 stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
  7. 🔊 cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
    “smear the wall with paint”
  8. 🔊 charge falsely or with malicious intent
    “The journalists have defamed me!”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 aplicar to smear, to put something above another thing or in contact with another thing
  2. 🔊 llenar to smear, soil, stain (something or someone); to become smeared, dirty, stained.

Similar words

blot smirch spot stain smudge spot blot daub smirch slur cytologic smear cytosmear vilification malignment defame slander smirch asperse denigrate calumniate sully besmirch daub blur