smear

(transitive)To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.

The artist smeared paint over the canvas in broad strokes.

Đồng nghĩa: apply, daub, plaster, spread

(transitive)To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.

She smeared her lips with lipstick.

Đồng nghĩa: bedaub, coat, cover, daub, layer, plaster

(transitive)To make something dirty.

Đồng nghĩa: besmirch, dirty, soil, sully, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, contaminate, darken, defile, dirten, dirty, elt, file, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle

(transitive)(of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.

(derogatory, transitive)To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.

The opposition party attempted to smear the candidate by spreading incorrect and unverifiable rumors about their personal behavior.

1976, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, “J.M.—A Writer’s Tribute” in Writers in Politics, London: Heinemann, 1981, p. 82, The imperialist foreigners then in the offices of the Nation Newspapers would not allow the African staff to review it. They handled it themselves in order to smear the book and its author and his celebration of Mau Mau resistance.

Đồng nghĩa: badmouth, besmirch, defame, sully, vilify, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear, bewray, blacken, blame, blaze, blemish, blot, blur, calumniate, calumny, chat shit, chat shite, cloud, defame, demonize, denigrate, deprave, depreciate, detract, dirty, discredit, disgrace, disparage, disrepute, diss, drag through the mud, forgab, forspeak, foul, infamize, lampoon, libel, malign, monsterize, muddy, reproach, revile, scandal, shit-talk, slag, slander, smear, smirch, spatter, spot, speak ill of, stab, stain, sully, talk shit, talk shite, talk trash, tarnish, torch, traduce, trash-talk, unflatter, vilify, vilipend, villainize, wrong

(transitive)To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.

Đồng nghĩa: blur, smudge

(intransitive)To become messy or not clear by being spread.

The paint is still wet — don't touch it or it will smear.

Đồng nghĩa: smudge

(transitive)To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.

(transitive)To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.

(transitive)To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.

(transitive)To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.

1960, Katherine Anne Porter, “Holiday” in Douglas and Sylvia Angus (eds.), Contemporary American Short Stories, New York: Ballantine, 1983, p. 323, […] she stood and shook with silent crying, smearing away her tears with the open palm of her hand.

(climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.

(countable, uncountable)A mark made by smearing.

This detergent cleans windows without leaving smears.

Đồng nghĩa: streak

(countable, uncountable)A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.

smear campaign

Đồng nghĩa: calumny, slander, slur, mudslinging

(countable, uncountable)(biology) A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.

Đồng nghĩa: squash

(countable, uncountable)(medicine) A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).

I'm going to the doctor's this afternoon for a smear.

Đồng nghĩa: cervical smear, Pap test

(uncountable)(radio, television, uncountable) Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.

(countable, uncountable)(climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact

(countable, uncountable)(music) A rough glissando in jazz music.