Thesaurus: smear

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1. n. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
2. n. To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
3. n. A fat, oily substance; oinment.
4. n. Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.
5. n. slanderous defamation
6. n. a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
7. n. a blemish made by dirt
8. n. an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
9. v. stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
10. v. make a smudge on; soil by smudging
11. v. cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
12. v. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone