One entry found for smear.

Entry Word: smear
Function: verb
Text: 1 to rub an oily or sticky substance over <the toddler gleefully smeared her hair and face with maple syrup>
Synonyms anoint, bedaub, besmear, daub
Related Words coat, paint, plaster; grease, oil; gum, lard, pitch, tar; begrime, besmirch, blacken, dirty, foul, grime, mire, muddy, smirch, smudge, soil, stain, sully
2 to make untrue and harmful statements about <willing to smear his opponent if doing so would win the election> -- see SLANDER