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(verb) spread or daub over |
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Synonyms: bedaub, besmear |
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Related Words: birdlime, cover |
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(verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging |
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Synonyms: blur, smudge, smutch |
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Related Words: dust, resmudge, rub |
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(verb) stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance |
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Related Words: begrime, bemire, besmirch, colly, dirty, grime, moil, smirch, soil |
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(noun) a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide for examination under a microscope |
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Related Words: Pap smear, cervical smear, sample |
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(noun) slanderous defamation |
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Synonyms: malignment, vilification |
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Related Words: calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
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(noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook" |
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Synonyms: blot, smirch, spot, stain |
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Related Words: error, fault, mistake |
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(verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; "smear the paint onto the wall" |
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Synonyms: daub |
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Related Words: blood, cover |
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(noun) a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" |
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Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smirch, smudge, spot |
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Related Words: blemish, blotch, defect, fingermark, fingerprint, splodge, splotch |
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(verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" The article in the paper sullied my reputation" |
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Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smirch, sully |
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Related Words: accuse, badmouth, charge, drag through the mud, libel, malign, traduce |
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