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
to obscure by blurring, or pushing something from a clearly delineated boundary over that boundary
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
A smudge stick is a bundle of dried herbs, most commonly white sage. Often other herbs or plants are used or added and the leaves are usually bound with string in a small bundle and dried. Some other herbs and spices that are often used include cilantro, cedar, lavender, and mugwort. They have a strong pleasant aroma when burnt. Smudge sticks can be purchased at a variety of places, including Whole Foods Market
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"