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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

smudge
    n 1: a smoky fire to drive away insects
    2: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn:
       smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur]
    v 1: make a smudge on; soil by smudging [syn: smear, blur,
         smudge, smutch]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Smudge \Smudge\, n. [Cf. Dan. smuds smut, E. smutch, or smoke.]
   1. A suffocating smoke. --Grose.
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   2. A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning
      slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or
      the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off
      mosquitoes or other insects. [U. S.] --Bartlett.
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   3. That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a
      smutch; a smear.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Smudge \Smudge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smudged; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Smudging.]
   1. To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a
      smudge.
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   2. To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.
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Thesaurus Results for Smudge:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

afterdamp, ash, ashes, aspersion, attaint, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, bedarken, bedaub, begrime, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmutch, besoil, black, black eye, black mark, blackdamp, blacken, blackening, blackwash, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, brand, breath, broad arrow, calx, carbon, censure, champain, charcoal, chokedamp, cinder, clinker, cloud, coal, coke, coom, cork, dab, damp, darken, darkening, daub, defile, denigrate, denigration, dinge, dirty, disparagement, dross, ebonize, effluvium, exhalation, eyesore, fetid air, firedamp, flatus, fleck, flick, fluid, flyspeck, foul, fume, grime, imputation, ink, lava, macula, maculation, macule, malaria, mark, mark of Cain, melanization, melanize, mephitis, miasma, murk, nigrification, nigrify, onus, oversmoke, patch, pillorying, plaster, point champain, puff of smoke, reek, reflection, reprimand, reproach, scoria, shade, shading, shadow, slag, slubber, slur, smarm, smear, smirch, smirching, smoke, smooch, smouch, smudging, smut, smutch, smutching, soil, soilage, soilure, soot, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, stain, steam, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, sullage, sully, taint, tarnish, vapor, volatile, water vapor

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