smeared

smear (smîr)

v. smeared, smear·ing, smears

v.tr.

a. To spread or daub with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance.

b. To apply by spreading or daubing: smeared suntan lotion on my face and arms.

2. To stain by or as if by spreading or daubing with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance.

3. To stain or attempt to destroy the reputation of; vilify: political enemies who smeared his name.

4. Slang To defeat utterly; smash.

v.intr.

To be or become stained or dirtied.

1. A mark made by smearing; a spot or blot.

2. A substance to be spread on a surface.

3. Biology A sample, as of blood or bacterial cells, spread on a slide for microscopic examination or on the surface of a culture medium.

a. Vilification or slander.

b. A vilifying or slanderous remark.

[Middle English smeren, to anoint, from Old English smerian.]

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smeared

adjective filthy, soiled, dirty, muddy, messy, grubby, sullied, grimy, unclean, mucky, grotty (slang), grungy (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), scuzzy (slang, chiefly U.S.), begrimed, skanky (slang) long, smeared windows

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bronchoscopic smear
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cytologic smear
cytologic specimen
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duodenal smear
esophageal smear
gastric smear
lower respiratory tract smear
oral smear
Pap smear
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Papanicolaou smear
Papanicolaou test
paraduodenal smear
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Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated.

Fables by Aesop View in context

He would remember that it was the color with which the hangman smeared "accursed" edifices; he would recall the Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, all smeared thus, on account of the constable's treason.

Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context

Passepartout jumped off the box and followed his master, who, after paying the cabman, was about to enter the station, when a poor beggar-woman, with a child in her arms, her naked feet smeared with mud, her head covered with a wretched bonnet, from which hung a tattered feather, and her shoulders shrouded in a ragged shawl, approached, and mournfully asked for alms.

Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context

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