noun, verb
noun a dirty mark with no clear shape:
a smudge of lipstick on a cup
Part of speech: verb
1 to touch or rub sth, especially wet ink or paint, so that it is no longer clear; to become not clear in this way:
[VN] He had smudged his signature with his sleeve. * Tears had smudged her mascara. * [V] Her lipstick had smudged.
2 [VN] to make a dirty mark on a surface:
The mirror was smudged with fingerprints.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for smudge is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is smudge a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, smudge is tagged as verb.
Does smudge appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — smudge appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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