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smeared

/smeer/US // smɪər //UK // (smɪə) //

涂抹,污损,污损的,涂抹式

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to spread or daub on or over something: to smear butter on bread.
    • : to spread or daub an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance on: to smear bread with butter.
    • : to stain, spot, or make dirty with something oily, greasy, viscous, or wet.
    • : to sully, vilify, or soil.
    • : to smudge or blur, as by rubbing: The signature was smeared.
    • : Slang. to defeat decisively; overwhelm: They smeared the home team.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
    • : a stain, spot, or mark made by such a substance.
    • : a smudge.
    • : something smeared or to be smeared on a thing, as a glaze for pottery.
    • : a small quantity of something spread thinly on a slide for microscopic examination.
    • : vilification: a smear by a cheap gossip columnist.

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Examples

  • They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.

  • Begin with a smear of pâte di bottarga, fish roe whipped with anchovies and tuna, then sip broth fortified by pasta and potatoes.

  • There was no doubt that the dark red smear left on the first-floor bust of Zachary Taylor was blood.

  • The secretary sought to attack the woman’s credibility by saying she had a history of making baseless complaints — a false smear according to the woman and investigators.

  • Bailey adds she is dismayed by the visceral tone of many copyright debates, and particularly by smears leveled at Samuelson, whose integrity she says is unimpeachable.

  • His accuser was smeared and demeaned, and a star football player was allowed to keep on playing.

  • A militarized strike force onstage, attired in all black with faces smeared in black as though prepped for a nighttime raid.

  • They described him as clad in black, his face smeared with mud.

  • In the first, we met two muscular young men, almost naked and smeared with a blood-like substance.

  • The line between author and audience has been smeared beyond all recognition.

  • Is she the woman whose face powder was smeared on Jack Carlson's lapel?

  • From his neck to his heels he was smeared with mud, and his tidy tunic was torn into ragged holes.

  • You can't mix colors with any degree of certainty if the palette is smeared with all sorts of tints.

  • The long war-arrow, weighted with a blazing mass of pitch-smeared 211 moss, stuck in a log a few inches below my peephole.

  • Henry Burns was not surprised to discover that the rock was smeared all over with spots of black paint.