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
{f} smear, soil, dirty, stain; become smudged; create a smoky fire to drive away insects
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