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be⋅smear

  [bi-smeer]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to smear all over; bedaub.
2. to sully; defile; soil: to besmear someone's reputation.
Origin:
bef. 1050; ME bismeren, OE besmerian. See be-, smear

Related forms:
be⋅smear⋅er, noun
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be·smear   (bĭ-smîr')   
tr.v.   be·smeared, be·smear·ing, be·smears
To smear.

[Middle English bismeorwen, to make filthy, from Old English besmirwan, to besmear : be-, be- + smierwan, to smear.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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