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noun
1.
a dirty mark or smear.
2.
a smeary state.
3.
a stifling smoke.
4.
a smoky fire, especially one made for driving away mosquitoes or safeguarding fruit trees from frost.
verb (used with object)
5.
to mark with dirty streaks or smears.
6.
to fill with smudge, as to drive away insects or protect fruit trees from frost.
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Smudge
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is bowdlerise. Does it mean:
| to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about. |
| to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable. |
verb (used without object)
7.
to form a smudge on something.
8.
to become smudged: White shoes smudge easily.
9.
to smolder or smoke; emit smoke, as a smudge pot.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English smogen (v.) < ?
1400–50; late Middle English smogen (v.) < ?
Related forms
smudg·ed·ly, adverb
smudge·less, adjective
un·smudged, adjective
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Example Sentences
- Instead, even the best earthbound telescopes ordinarily see a star as a fat smudge.
- He found that it must be comfortable in the hand and should not smudge.
- In the canyons below, the forest flattened into a gray smudge.
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Word Origin & History
smudge
c.1430, smogen "to soil, stain, blacken," of obscure origin. The noun is first attested 1768, from the verb.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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