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.
- 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.