Definition of Besmudge

1. to smudge [v -SMUDGED, -SMUDGING, -SMUDGES] - See also: smudge

Lexicographical Neighbors of Besmudge

besmirch
besmirched
besmirches
besmirching
besmirchment
besmirchments
besmocked
besmoke
besmoked
besmokes
besmoking
besmooth
besmoothed
besmoothing
besmooths
besmudge (current term)
besmudged
besmudges
besmudging
besmut
besmutch
besmuts
besmutted
besmutting
besnew
besnoitiasis
besnoitiosis
besnow
besnowball
besnowballed

Literary usage of Besmudge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer (1913)
"... hair close to the head and besmudge themselves with oil and pounded charcoal. The women besmear themselves ..."

2. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"... refined views of life, Punch would never besmudge a column of his brilliant periodical by damning anything or anybody, like any ordinary press critic. ..."

3. Historical Outlines of English Accidence, Comprising Chapters on the History by Richard Morris (1899)
"... besmudge. (2) It forms intensive verbs, with the sense of 'thoroughly,' ' soundly. ..."

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