smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"
If you smudge a substance such as ink, paint, or make-up that has been put on a surface, you make it less neat by touching or rubbing it. Smudge the outline using a cotton-wool bud Her lipstick was smudged
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
a practice borrowed from the sacred traditions of Native Americans This is a method of purification using the smoke from a tightly packed bundle sage, sometimes mixed with other herbs, which is wafted around the body
If you smudge a surface, you make it dirty by touching it and leaving a substance on it. She kissed me, careful not to smudge me with her fresh lipstick. a dirty mark = smear smudge of
smudged
Turkish pronunciation
smʌcd
Pronunciation
/ˈsməʤd/ /ˈsmʌʤd/
Etymology
[ 'sm&j ] (verb.) 15th century. Middle English smogen.