Smudge

Quick meaning: Smudge is a noun meaning A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.

Meaning

A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.

More Meanings

1. Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
2. (paganism, especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
3. To obscure by blurring; to smear.
4. To soil or smear with dirt.
5. To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
6. To stifle or smother with smoke.
7. (US) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.

Example Sentences

There was a smudge on the paper.

The use of smoke (or "smudges") against the attack of the mosquito is well understood in America and elsewhere.

Devil's dirt or asafetida ground together with fenugreek and black cumin seed is used as a smudge against witches and […]

This is easily done using incense to smudge yourself or taking a cleansing bath. To smudge your body use an incense mixture such as sandalwood, lavender, frankincense or myrrh.

Word Forms

• smudges
• smudging
• smudged

Synonyms for smudge

Depending on context, synonyms include blur, smutch, stain, smear, befoul, soil.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include smirch, smutch, smear, blot, blur, spot.

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