smudge
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
There was a smudge on the paper.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
- 3.
(US, countable, uncountable)A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
- 4.
(countable, especially, uncountable)(paganism, especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To obscure by blurring; to smear.
Đồng nghĩa: blur, smear
- 2.
To soil or smear with dirt.
Đồng nghĩa: befoul, smutch, soil, 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
- 3.
To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
Đồng nghĩa: fumigate
- 4.
To stifle or smother with smoke.
- 5.
(intransitive)(paganism, intransitive) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
- 6.
(transitive)(paganism, transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).
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Derived from the verb (see below). smutch.