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| smear [ smeer ] |
verb (past and past participle smeared, present participle smear·ing, 3rd person present singular smears) |
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1. transitive and intransitive verb spread something over surface: to spread something liquid or greasy over a surface, or be spread over a surface
  This lipstick is made not to smear.
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2. transitive verb say bad things about somebody: to deliberately spread damaging rumors about somebody
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3. transitive verb U.S. defeat somebody: to severely defeat a competitor or enemy
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informal
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usually passive
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We got smeared.
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noun (plural smears) |
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1. patch of smeared substance: an act of smearing, or a smeared patch of something
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2. harmful rumor: a damaging rumor about somebody
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3. medicine sample of cells: a sample of cells taken from body tissue or a bodily secretion or discharge and smeared on a microscope slide for examination
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| [ Old English smeirwan (verb), smeoru (noun) < Germanic] |
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| smear·er noun |
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