SMEAR Definition & Meaning

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smear

[ smeer ]

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verb (used with object)

to spread or daub (an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance) on or over something:
to smear butter on bread.
to spread or daub an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance on:
to smear bread with butter.
to stain, spot, or make dirty with something oily, greasy, viscous, or wet.
to sully, vilify, or soil (a reputation, good name, etc.).
to smudge or blur, as by rubbing:
The signature was smeared.
Slang. to defeat decisively; overwhelm:
They smeared the home team.

noun

an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
a stain, spot, or mark made by such a substance.
a smudge.
something smeared or to be smeared on a thing, as a glaze for pottery.
a small quantity of something spread thinly on a slide for microscopic examination.
vilification:
a smear by a cheap gossip columnist.

smear

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verb

to bedaub or cover with oil, grease, etc
to rub over or apply thickly
to rub so as to produce a smudge
to slander
slang.
to defeat completely
intr to be or become smeared or dirtied

noun

a dirty mark or smudge
1. a slanderous attack
2. ( as modifier )
  smear tactics
a preparation of blood, secretions, etc, smeared onto a glass slide for examination under a microscope

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Derived Forms

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Other �y��vlog Forms

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of smear¹

before 900; (v.) Middle English smeren, smirien to rub with fat, anoint, Old English smirian, smerian, smerwan; cognate with Dutch smeren, German schmieren, Old Norse smyrja, smyrwa; (noun) in current senses derivative of the v.; compare obsolete smear fat, grease, ointment, Middle English smere, Old English smeoru, cognate with Dutch smear, German Schmer, Old Norse ��ǫ�� grease, Greek ��ý�� rubbing powder; emery

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of smear¹

Old English smeoru (n); related to Old Norse ��ö�� fat, Old High German smero, Greek muron ointment

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Brand denied those allegations and maintained they were part of a coordinated smear campaign against him in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson last year.

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Mine turned out to be the antithesis of that but regardless, the whole process of assembling smeared butter and then eating it was oddly…cathartic and whimsical.

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A Qatari official also dismissed the probe as a "smear campaign" against Qatar, which has played a key role as a mediator between Israel and Hamas during the war in Gaza.

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He added people had a right to go to work without fear of intimidation, but the union hit back and accused the local authority of trying to "smear" the behaviour of refuse workers.

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In her suit, she alleged that he pressured her to perform more nudity than agreed upon, improvised intimate scenes and retaliated with a smear campaign after she raised concerns.

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