2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, Chapter 12, p. 323, Wet leaves smeared the pavement.
1982, Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, New York: Knopf, 1989, Chapter 6, p. 168, a rust spot smearing the back of the sink.
1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 21, p. 263, a pallor which was accentuated by the blood which smeared her lips and cheeks and chin.
) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
2016, Ali Smith, Autumn, Penguin, 2017, Chapter 2, His hands and forearms, his face, his good shirt and suit are smeared from the dustbins and climbing the fence,.
1855, Elizabeth Gaskill, North and South, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 11, p. 147, she returned, carrying Johnnie, his face all smeared with eating,.
John Calvin upon the Fifth Book of Moses called Deuteronomie, London: George Bishop, Sermon 41, p. 246, A man may bee smeared or grimed, and euerie man shall laugh at him, and yet he himselfe shall not perceiue it a whit.
1583, Arthur Golding (translator), The Sermons of M.
( transitive ) To make something dirty.
1964, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, London: Vintage, 2010, p. 53, it’s better if we admit to disliking and hating them, than if we try to smear our feelings over with pseudo-liberal sentimentality.
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 10, lines 725-727, a Vessel of huge bulk, Measur’d by Cubit, length, & breadth, and highth, Smeard round with Pitch,.
1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene 2, Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry them and smear The sleepy grooms with blood. Synonyms: bedaub, coat, cover, daub, layer, plaster She smeared her lips with lipstick.
( transitive ) To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, New York: Penguin, Then you would kneel and smear a handful of pomade through my hair, comb it over.
Newbery, Chapter 5, p. 74, In general, all bodies whose surfaces are even will stick to each other, and if a liquid be smeared over either surface, their cohesion will be still the stronger.
1776, Oliver Goldsmith, A Survey of Experimental Philosophy, London: T.
Synonyms: apply, daub, plaster, spread The artist smeared paint over the canvas in broad strokes.
( transitive ) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
Smear ( third-person singular simple present smears, present participle smearing, simple past and past participle smeared)
( Received Pronunciation ) enPR: smî, IPA (key): /sm?/.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian smeere, Dutch smeren, Low German smeren, German schmieren. From Middle English smeren, smerien, from Old English smerian, smyrian, smierwan ( “ to anoint or rub with grease, oil, etc.
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