smudge

About 0.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.

   There was a smudge on the paper.

2. noun Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
3. noun A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
4. noun A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
5. verb To obscure by blurring; to smear.
6. verb To soil or smear with dirt.
7. verb To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
8. verb To stifle or smother with smoke.

Similar words

smirch smutch smear blot blur spot daub slur blob stain

Often followed by

of on the tool and pots in or stick

Word family

smudged smudges smudgier smudgiest smudgily smudginess smudginesses smudging smudgy