Smear v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smeared p. pr. & vb. n. Smearing.]
1. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. “Smear the sleepy grooms with blood.”
2. To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
Smeared a. Zool. Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita).
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smeared
adj : smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are
often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes";
"hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry
Roth; "ink-smudged fingers" [syn: smirched, smudged,
smudgy]