Usually means: Mark made by dirtying surface.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. smudge: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. smudge, smudge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. smudge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. smudge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. smudge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Smudge, smudge: Wordnik
  7. smudge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. smudge: Wiktionary
  9. smudge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. smudge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. smudge: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. smudge: Dictionary.com
  13. smudge: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. smudge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Smudge (Blue Peter cat), Smudge (Monica's Gang), Smudge (band), Smudge (cat), Smudge (comics), Smudge (film), Smudge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Smudge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. smudge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. smudge: Rhymezone
  19. Smudge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. SMUDGE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. smudge: Free Dictionary
  22. smudge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. smudge: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. smudge: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smudge: Legal dictionary

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  1. smudge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smudge: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. smudge, smudge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. smudge: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
noun:  Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
noun:  (US) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
noun:  (paganism, especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
verb:  To obscure by blurring; to smear.
verb:  To soil or smear with dirt.
verb:  To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
verb:  To stifle or smother with smoke.
verb:  (paganism, intransitive) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
verb:  (paganism, transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).

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