Usually means: Spread or rub something messily.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word smear:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. smear: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. smear: Merriam-Webster
  3. smear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. smear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. smear: Collins English Dictionary
  6. smear: Vocabulary.com
  7. Smear, smear: Wordnik
  8. smear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. smear: Wiktionary
  10. smear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. smear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. smear: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. smear: Dictionary.com
  14. smear (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. smear: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Smear (Cristian Gheorghiu), Smear (card game), Smear (optics), Smear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Smear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. smear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. smear: Rhymezone
  20. smear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. smear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. smear: FreeDictionary.org
  23. smear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. smear: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smear: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. smear: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. smear: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. smear: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. smear, smear, smear, smear: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. smear: The Folk File
  3. Smear: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Smear: Card Games

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

(Note: See smeared as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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