Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To smear.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To smear over; smear all over; sully.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To smear over or about; bedaub; overspread with any viscous matter, or with any soft substance that adheres; hence, to foul; soil; sully.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. 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
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.
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When Serpents sting, the only Remedy is – to kill the Serpent, and besmear the Wound with the Fat.
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Who could believe that someone so upstanding would stoop to besmear himself in the slush of Teapot Dome?
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As I was going through my dictionary, I found the word "hlamukela" meaning to besmear one's mouth.
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Brian and I laughed out loud when we read your story about "besmear."
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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."
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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.
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Shakespeare (in Julius Caesar) eloquently described the bright facade of this fundamentalist, political shadow in his play about another "super power": And let us bathe our hands in ... blood up to the elbows, and besmear our swords.
Dr. Bush and Mr. Hyde: The Fundamentalist Shadow of George W. Bush
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They seem to be almost entirely devoid of every feeling but that of gratifying their appetites; and provided the slave is well fed, and receives a regular allowance of butter and meat, and of grease to besmear his body, he cares little for the stripes or curses he receives.
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I do not expect anything further in life than a succession of sheets of paper to besmear with black.
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