Definitions for smudge

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Spelling: [smuhj]

IPA: /smʌdʒ/

Smudge is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in smudge (degmsu).

Definitions for smudge

noun

1. a dirty mark or smear.
2. a smeary state.
3. a stifling smoke.
4. a smoky fire, especially one made for driving away mosquitoes or safeguarding fruit trees from frost.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark with dirty streaks or smears.
2. to fill with smudge, as to drive away insects or protect fruit trees from frost.

verb (used without object)

1. to form a smudge on something.
2. to become smudged:
3. to smolder or smoke; emit smoke, as a smudge pot.

Origin of smudge

1400-50; late Middle English smogen (v.)

Examples for smudge

"Come to council," I sent up, while they helped to keep the smudge thick.

And to-day "the smudge" has grown more than ever ineffective.

He opened his silver cigarette case and rubbed a smudge from the initials.

It might pass in my handwriting, with a smudge for paternal grief—it might.

Such is the story of the hole which you have marked, and of the smudge upon the wood.

Oil of citronella will drive them away for a time but a "smudge" may be necessary.

Come now, Fairy, you needn't wrinkle up that smudge of a nose at me.

Ahead, he could see the smudge of the Black Fleet's smoke on the horizon.

“What a shame,” he said, as it fell on his letter, and made a smudge.

What happened with Broadwell will be seen as a smudge on his record.