Definitions For Smear

noun

  • An act that brings discredit to the person who does it
  • A blemish made by dirt
  • A thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
  • Slanderous defamation
  • A dirty mark, spot, streak, etc., made by touching or rubbing something
  • A very small sample of something (such as skin or blood) that someone examines with a microscope
  • An untrue story about a person that is meant to hurt that person's reputation

verb

  • Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
  • Cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
  • Make a smudge on; soil by smudging
  • Stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
  • To make (something) dirty by rubbing it with something else
  • To spread (something) over a surface
  • To spread or drip in an untidy way

Is Smears a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
8
Words with Friends
9

The word Smear is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Smear in a Sentence

  • The blood smear revealed malaria.
  • The children smeared the window with fingerprints.
  • She smeared jam on her toast.
  • Butter was smeared all over the counter.

Synonyms for Smear

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