Smudge

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1. Noun

A suffocating smoke.

2. Noun

A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.

3. Noun

That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.

4. Verb

To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.

5. Verb

To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.

6. Noun

a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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