smudge
/smʌd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To obscure by blurring; to smear.
- To soil or smear with dirt.
- To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
- To stifle or smother with smoke.
- To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
- To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).
He/she/it smudges · Past smudged · Past participle smudged · -ing form smudging
Verb forms
- Base form
- smudge
- He/she/it
- smudges
- Past
- smudged
- Past participle
- smudged
- -ing form
- smudging
From the library
“And look at this!” He held the lamp down and illuminated a smudge of blood like the mark of a boot-sole upon the wooden sill.
That gravel page upon which I might have read so much has been long ere this smudged by the rain and defaced by the clogs of curious peasants.
Looking back we saw the figure moving slowly away over the broad moor, and behind him that one black smudge on the silvered slope which showed where the man was lying who had come so horribly to his end.
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