Usually means: Spreads or stains messily, disparages.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. smears: Merriam-Webster
  2. smears: Collins English Dictionary
  3. smears: Vocabulary.com
  4. Smears, smears: Wordnik
  5. smears: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. smears: Wiktionary
  7. smears: Dictionary.com
  8. smears: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. smears: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smears: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smears: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. smears: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. smears: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smears: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. smears: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Smears: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

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Definitions from Wiktionary (smear)

verb:  (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
verb:  (transitive) To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
verb:  (transitive) To make something dirty.
verb:  (transitive) (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
verb:  (transitive) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
verb:  (intransitive) To become messy or not clear by being spread.
verb:  (transitive) To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
verb:  (transitive) To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
verb:  (transitive) To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
verb:  (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
noun:  A mark made by smearing.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
noun:  (biology) A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
noun:  (medicine) A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
noun:  (radio, television, uncountable) Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
noun:  (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
noun:  (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.
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