Synonyms of the word

smutch

• v. To soil, stain or smudge.
• n. A stain, smudge or blot.

blur

• v. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
• v. To smear, stain or smudge.
• v. (intransitive) To become indistinct.
• v. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
• v. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
• n. A smear, smudge or blot.
• n. Something that appears hazy or indistinct.
• n. (obsolete) A moral stain or blot.
• adj. (Malaysia, Singapore, informal) In a state of doubt or confusion.

rub

• n. An act of rubbing.
• n. A difficulty or problem.
• n. In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
• n. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure…
• v. (transitive) To rub something against (a second thing).
• v. (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
• v. (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
• v. (dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
• v. To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
• v. To hinder; to cross; to thwart.

smear

• v. (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To have a substance smeared on (a surface).
• v. (transitive) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false…
• v. (intransitive) To become spread by smearing.
• v. (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
• n. A mark made by smearing.
• n. (medicine) A Pap smear.
• n. A false attack.
• n. (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe…
• n. (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.

smudge

• n. A blemish; a smear.
• n. Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
• n. (US) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of…
• n. (paganism, especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
• v. To obscure by blurring; to smear.
• v. To soil or smear with dirt.
• v. To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
• v. To stifle or smother with smoke.
• v. (paganism, intransitive) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
• v. (paganism, transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).