- smeared, smirched, smudged, smudgy - smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"
Antonym: clean (indirect, via dirty)
- smear - stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
--1 is one way to dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun smear3
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- smear, blur, smudge, smutch - make a smudge on; soil by smudging
--2 is one way to rub
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun smear3
The children smear the paper with grease
The children smear grease onto the paper
- daub, smear - cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; "smear the wall with paint"; "daub the ceiling with plaster"
--3 is one way to cover
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch - charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
--4 is one way to charge, accuse
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun smear1
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody