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smear
Found in thesaurus: defamation, calumniation, hatchet job, mar, defect, fault, bemire, begrime, soil, rub, accuse
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smear
n.
smudge, spot, stain; slander, libel, slur; material smeared on a slide for microscopic examination (Medicine)
v.
spread something across or over a surface; slander, defame; stain, soil, dirty; smudge, blur; defeat (Slang)
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Smear
Smear may refer to:
- A smear test, wherein a sample is smeared over a microscope slide to be studied for any pathology
- A smear test usually refers to a pap test, that is, a cervical smear
- Smear (card game)
- Smear Lake, a lake in Wisconsin
- Smear campaign, a tactic to undermine an individual or a group
- Smear Campaign (album), an album by Napalm Death
- Pat Smear, the guitarist and actor
- Smear (optics), motion that degrades sharpness, which is generally linear over the integration time
- Colloquial name for a glissando, a glide from one musical pitch to another
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smear
Noun
1. slanderous defamation
(synonym) vilification, malignment
(hypernym) defamation, calumny, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job
(derivation) defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, sully, besmirch
2. a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
(synonym) cytologic smear, cytosmear
(hypernym) cytologic specimen
(hyponym) alimentary tract smear
3. a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
(synonym) smudge, spot, blot, daub, smirch, slur
(hypernym) blemish, defect, mar
(hyponym) blotch, splodge, splotch
(derivation) blur, smudge, smutch
4. an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"
(synonym) blot, smirch, spot, stain
(hypernym) mistake, error, fault
Verb
1. stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
(hypernym) dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
(hyponym) moil
(derivation) smudge, spot, blot, daub, smirch, slur
2. make a smudge on; soil by smudging
(synonym) blur, smudge, smutch
(hypernym) rub
(hyponym) resmudge
(derivation) smudge, spot, blot, daub, smirch, slur
3. cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; "smear the wall with paint"; "daub the ceiling with plaster"
(synonym) daub
(hypernym) cover
(hyponym) blood
(verb-group) daub
4. 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"
(synonym) defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, sully, besmirch
(hypernym) charge, accuse
(hyponym) assassinate
(derivation) vilification, malignment
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smear
n.
šmouha; pomluva; osočení
v.
zamazat; rozmazat
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smear
Rzecz.
maźnięcie; plama; potwarz
Czas.
smarować; paćkać
