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SMUTCH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a smudge on; soil by smudging

Synonyms:

blur; smear; smudge; smutch

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "smutch" is one way to...):

rub (move over something with pressure)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "smutch"):

resmudge (smudge again)

dust (rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence examples:

The children smutch the paper with grease

The children smutch grease onto the paper

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