smudge

IPA: smˈʌdʒ

A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
(US) 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.
(paganism, especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.

To obscure by blurring; to smear.
To soil or smear with dirt.
To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
To stifle or smother with smoke.
(paganism, intransitive) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
(paganism, transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).

Examples of "smudge" in Sentences

However, I should have noted yesterday that the Jore campaign says the smudge is an erasure.
You know that lipstick smudge is on your cheek while you're out in public, but you just don't care.
The smudge is the residue, and it is only the residue of his body, and it is only there because of his after-death.
Google has been stemming words for some time - enter the word smudge and Google will bold smudges and smudging in the search results.
I suppose for what you call smudge regression you could choose a T so that as lambda approached some predefined value the fit would approach the average.
It was called "smudge" by some of the old railway companies that tipped any leftovers from painting their engines or coaches into a big tub, mixed them together and painted their goods wagons with it.
Thus, what Tommy's Collision Center called a "smudge" on the lens of the Q56's $1,000-plus high-intensity-discharge headlamp could not be "fixed" unless the entire, still completely functional, headlamp was replaced at original-equipment cost.