smudge
A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty oneA blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
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» My glasses are all smudged up.
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Examples
8 sentencesMy glasses are all smudged up.
David left smudges on the poster.
Cookie licked my face and smudged my glasses.
Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
There was a smudge on the paper.
Fleck
пятно́pjatnó
(countable, uncountable)Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
(US, countable, uncountable)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.
(countable, especially, uncountable)A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
- a smoky fire to drive away insects
- a blemish made by dirt
Origin
Derived from the verb (see below). Doublet of smutch.Derived from the verb (see below). Doublet of smutch.
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Forms
plural: smudgesSynonyms
9 synonymsWord family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.