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Raresmudge
The correct spelling is smudge.
How to pronounce smudge
/smʌdʒ/
nounIPA: /smʌdʒ/
Say it like: Smu-j
The correct spelling is smudge. A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. For example: "There was a smudge on the paper."
Usage Examples
“There was a smudge on the paper.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
- 2.Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
- 3.A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
- 4.(especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
verb
- 1.To obscure by blurring; to smear.
- 2.To soil or smear with dirt.
- 3.To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
- 4.To stifle or smother with smoke.
- 5.To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
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