Smear: alternatives and connections

To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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Accusation.

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To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.

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To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

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To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

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False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.

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False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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The black grime or soot of coal.

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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; sl…

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Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

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Defect; want; lack; default.

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Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

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A small lake. See Mere.

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To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.

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Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension.

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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…

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To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence…

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The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny.

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To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence.

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To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.

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The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste produc…

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Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portion…

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A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.

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Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

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To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.

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To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

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To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.

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A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

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A spot; a stain; a daub.

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To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.

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To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.

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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.

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To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.

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The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.

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The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.

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To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.

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To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.

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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

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To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manu…

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To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.

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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calum…

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To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.

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A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemina…

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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

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To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

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A suffocating smoke.

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A stain; a dirty spot.

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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

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To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.

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The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.

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