Besmear

Quick meaning: Besmear is a verb meaning (transitive) To smear over, to smear all over, to daub.

Meaning

(transitive) To smear over, to smear all over, to daub.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To damage the reputation of, to tarnish, to sully.

Example Sentences

His public record is already besmeared with tawdry divorces, […]

[…] carters and coachmen, who make in imitation thereof a composition of grease and tar, with which they besmear the inside of the naves of wheels and the extremitys of the axis upon which they move.

I long to ſee thee backe returne from thence, That I may view theſe milk-white ſteeds of mine. All loden with the heads of killed men, And from their knees, euen to their hoofes below, Beſmer’d with blood, that makes a dainty ſhow.

Novv, Sir, vvhen my Time comes, leſt they ſhou'd think it vvorth vvhile to handle my Memory vvith the ſame Freedom, I am vvilling to prevent its being ſo odly beſmear'd (or at beſt but flatly vvhite-vvash'd) by taking upon me to give the Publick This, as true a Picture of myſelf as natural Vanity vvill permit me to dravv; […]

Word Forms

• besmears
• besmearing
• besmeared

Synonyms for besmear

Depending on context, synonyms include bedaub, bedirty, soil, assoil, beclart, bedizen.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include smear, bedaub, besmirk, smudge, besmutch, foul.

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