smudge

IPA: smˈʌdʒ

noun

  • 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.

verb

  • 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).
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Examples of "smudge" in Sentences

  • I found a smudge on my shirt.
  • The art work was done by smudge.
  • It's the smudge and blur effect in Photoshop.
  • The end result is a smudge of paint on the canvas.
  • The tale mentions there is a smudge around the glowing fire.
  • Another feature of pitch missing from this is the smudge bid.
  • Mugwort amongst other herbs were often bound into smudge sticks.
  • Her lipstick and rouge looked freshly applied, not at all smudged.
  • Note that the smudge in the upper right of the disc is a fingermark.
  • Our smudge and blear and soil, he proposes, do not efface the glory.

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