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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
besmear .
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Examples
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Come, let me put a case to thee: did it ever happen to any to dream that he was fighting a sore battle and after to awake and find in his hand a sword besmeared with blood? '
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets.
Cri de coeur 2009
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His public record is already besmeared with tawdry divorces, and there are private encounters with the fair sex that doubtless will come out.
Eric Boehlert: Gingrich Assailed by Conservative Press; Conservatives Blame "Liberal Media" Eric Boehlert 2012
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These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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It's unclear whether any concertgoers were similarly besmeared, but the gig's promoters are providing full refunds.
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If it is not the End Times, you are leaving God's blessed creation stripped of its resources and besmeared with pollution, a filthy shadow of itself for future generations.
Madness 2009
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Surprised in her satiety by good guys Thalmus Rasulala and Gordon Pinsent, she bolts upright with another of her unsettling banshee wails, her fangs besmeared with blood, ready to rumble.
31 Screams: Ketty Lester Arbogast 2008
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Now let me ask thee, did it ever befal any man to dream that he was battling a sore battle and after to awake from sleep and find in his hand a sword-blade besmeared with blood?
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And what it means about the culture is that people eat with their hands and eat a lot of meat, meat with fat that can be besmeared.
Besmear One's Mouth Ronda 2008
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The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked.
Les Miserables 2008
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