Smudge: alternatives and connections

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

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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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A small lake. See Mere.

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

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

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A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.

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A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.

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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 smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; 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 smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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

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To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

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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 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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