Definitions for smudges

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Spelling: [smuhj]

IPA: /smʌdʒ/

Smudges is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in smudges (degmssu).

Definitions for smudges

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 smudges

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

Examples for smudges

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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