Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To smear.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To smear over or about; bedaub; overspread with any viscous matter, or with any soft substance that adheres; hence, to foul; soil; sully.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
smear over; smear all over;sully .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb spread or daub (a surface)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Now, my English has gone to hell, but I can't ever remember using the word "besmear" even though I vaguely know what it means.
Archive 2008-06-01 Ronda 2008
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Now, my English has gone to hell, but I can't ever remember using the word "besmear" even though I vaguely know what it means.
Besmear One's Mouth Ronda 2008
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When Serpents sting, the only Remedy is – to kill the Serpent, and besmear the Wound with the Fat.
Annotations 2007
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And, you know what, it does say something about a culture that has a word that means to besmear one's mouth and hands with fat when eating.
Besmear One's Mouth Ronda 2008
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So, I enter the word in the handy-dandy online dictionary and find this: "besmear one's mouth and hands with fat when eating."
Besmear One's Mouth Ronda 2008
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Who could believe that someone so upstanding would stoop to besmear himself in the slush of Teapot Dome?
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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Who could believe that someone so upstanding would stoop to besmear himself in the slush of Teapot Dome?
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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And, you know what, it does say something about a culture that has a word that means to besmear one's mouth and hands with fat when eating.
Archive 2008-06-01 Ronda 2008
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As I was going through my dictionary, I found the word "hlamukela" meaning to besmear one's mouth.
Archive 2008-06-01 Ronda 2008
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Brian and I laughed out loud when we read your story about "besmear."
Besmear One's Mouth Ronda 2008
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