Definitions for besmear

besmear be·smear

Spelling: [bih-smeer]
IPA: /bɪˈsmɪər/

Besmear is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 214 anagrams from letters in besmear (abeemrs).

Definitions for besmear

verb (used with object)

  1. to smear all over; bedaub.
  2. to sully; defile; soil:

Origin of besmear

before 1050; Middle English bismeren, Old English besmerian. See be-, smear

Examples for besmear

The reverse of besmear is to rub off; hence to obliterate means to rub out, to erase.

Letter (from L. linere, to besmear); so called because smeared on parchment and not cut on wood.

They also besmear their bodies with grease and coloured earths.

They fashion his image of kadamb7 wood and besmear it with red lead.

The colours with which they besmear the bodies of both sexes possibly date from the same common origin.

Was it honour and fair play to besmear my mother's name, to throw reflections upon my birth?

They make little fires during the day, sleeping at night among the warm ashes, with which they besmear their bodies.

In all history it has been shown that he who seeks to besmear others usually leaves the greatest amount of mud on himself.

When serpents sting, the only remedy is to kill the serpent, and besmear the wound with the fat.

His intensity of loathing leads him to besmear his antagonists with filth.

Word Value for besmear
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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