Word Study
smutch
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb smutch has 1 sense
- smutch(v = verb.contact) blur, smear, smudge - make a smudge on; soil by smudging; Array is one way to rub
Sample sentences:
The children smutch the paper with grease
The children smutch grease onto the paper
CIDE DICTIONARY
A stain; a dirty spot. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
smutch, v. t.
To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
smutch
Uncleanness
VB be unclean, become unclean, rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek, stink, mold, molder, go bad, render unclean, dirt, dirty, daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear, smirch, begrease, dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle, spatter, slubber, besmear, bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul, splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven, corrupt, cover with dust, drabble in the mud, roil, wallow in the mire, slobber, slabber.Blackness
VB be black, render black, blacken, infuscate, denigrate, blot, blotch, smutch, smirch, darken, black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon, atramentous, jetty, coal-black, jet-black, fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic, low-toned, low in tone, of the deepest dye, black as jet, black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight, nocturnal, nigrescent, gray, obscure.
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