| Meaning | make a smudge on; soil by smudging. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Model | The children smutch the paper with grease; The children smutch grease onto the paper | |
| Synonyms | smear, blur, smudge | |
| Narrower | dust | rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape |
| resmudge | smudge again | |
| Broader | rub | Move over something with pressure |
| Spanish | embadurnar, embarrar, empañar, ensuciar, manchar, oscurecer, tiznar | |
| Catalan | enfosquir, ensutjar, entelar, tacar | |
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