Smearing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SMEARING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SMEAR, to spread with something oily or sticky
• coat or mark (something) messily or carelessly with a greasy or sticky substance
• spread (a greasy or sticky substance) over something
• messily blur the outline of (something such as writing or paint); smudge
• damage the reputation of (someone) by false accusations; slander
NOUN:
• a mark or streak of a greasy or sticky substance
• a sample of tissue or other material taken from part of the body, spread thinly on a microscope slide for examination, typically for medical diagnosis
• an insecure foothold
• a false accusation intended to damage someone's reputation
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to spread with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance

Words related to SMEARING

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Words that contain SMEARING

besmearing15

How to use SMEARING in a sentence

• If she was denied anything she threw herself on the ground, crying miserably, rolling about in the filth and dirt, and smearing with her dirty hands the bread, melons, etc.
• In a moment Kennedy had donned overalls and was smearing dirt and grease over his face and hands.
• Petroleum wells supply the whole Burman empire with oil for lamps, and also for smearing timber, to protect it against insects, and particularly the white ant.
• All was ready for us now, and I had replaced the stone, smearing the edges of it round with a little fat and soot, so as to hide the cracks where the mortar should have been.
• There are no mourning observances other than smearing the forehead and under the eyes with tar, which is allowed to remain until worn off, and then not renewed.
• The widow “goes into mourning” by smearing her face with a substance composed of pitch and charcoal.
• Johnson, of Great Totham, is of opinion that smearing trees with oil, to destroy insects on them, injures the vegetation, and is not a certain remedy.
• He says that he took a wicked satisfaction in smearing the colours upon that desecrated canvas.
• I seized it, careless of the smearing of my fingers, and took it to the moonlight.
• The captain escaped, after being wounded, by smearing blood and sand over his face and hiding himself amongst his dead companions.
• At the same time, some one kindled a fire under a kettle filled with tar, and in a few minutes, they were smearing him with it.
• In the rear a small opening was left near the ground, and here they constructed a rude fireplace and chimney of such rocks as they found handy, smearing the cracks full of clay.
• The Master, indifferently smearing off the blood from his neck, made his way toward the forward companion.
• Torn with anguish of a great conflict, he pondered, smearing the sweat of agony from his hard-wrinkled forehead.
• I even took the trouble to hide the tar marks on my wads by smearing wetted gunpowder all over them.
• If nobody called him, he used to sit inactive at home, weeping and groaning and smearing his rags with dust and ashes.
• The preparation of these vegetable substances is said to be effected by smearing them over with musk-balsam.

Similar words containing SMEAR without suffix ing

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