meaning of smear3
1. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
2. To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
3. A fat, oily substance; oinment.
4. Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.
5. The sand fluke (b).
6. an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his
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