smear
suomi-englanti sanakirjasmear englannista suomeksi
tahrata, vetää lokaan, mustamaalata
tuhria
sivellä
rasvatahra
töhriä
herjaus, mustamaalaus
tahra
tippamainen preparaatti
Verbi
Substantiivi
smear englanniksi
To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
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{{quote-book|en|year=1776|author=Oliver Goldsmith|title=A Survey of Experimental Philosophy|location=London|publisher=T. Carnan and F. Newbery|chapter=5|page=74|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004897705.0001.001
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(quote-book)|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=hKRtDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false|publisher=Penguin|location=New York
To cover (a surface ''with'' a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
(RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) a Vessel of huge bulk,Measur’d by Cubit, length, & breadth, and highth,Smeard round with Pitch,
(quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/singleman0000ishe/page/53/mode/1up?q=smear|page=53|publisher=Vintage|year_published=2010|location=London
To make something dirty.
(quote-text) upon the (w)|location=London|publisher=George Bishop|section=Sermon 41, p. 246|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17698.0001.001
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Chapman and Hall|volume=2|chapter=11|page=147|url=https://archive.org/details/northsouth02gask/page/147/mode/1up?q=smeared
(quote-book)|chapterurl=https://books.google.ca/books?id=A8AiDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false|chapter=2|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2017
(qualifier) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
(RQ:Stoker Dracula)
{{quote-text|en|year=1982|author=Anne Tyler|title=Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant|url=https://archive.org/details/dinnerathomesick0000tyle_x4u5/page/168/mode/1up?q=smear|chapter=6|page=168|publisher=Knopf|year_published=1989|location=New York
(RQ:Hollinghurst Line)
To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
(RQ:Joyce Dubliners)
1976, (w), “J.M.—A Writer’s Tribute” in ''Writers in Politics,'' London: Heinemann, 1981, p.(nbs)82,https://archive.org/details/writersinpolitic0000ngug/page/82/mode/1up?q=smear
- The imperialist foreigners then in the offices of the Nation Newspapers would not allow the African staff to review it. They handled it themselves in order to smear the book and its author and his celebration of (w).
{{quote-book|en|year=2018|author=Richard Powers|title=The Overstory|location=New York|publisher=Norton|chapter=Neelay Mehta|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=_zQsDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
(RQ:Dickens David Copperfield)
{{quote-text|en|year=1954|author=J. R. R. Tolkien|title=The Fellowship of the Ring|location=New York|publisher=Ballantine|year_published=1973|section=Book 2, Chapter 5, p. 419|url=https://archive.org/details/lordofrings0000tolk_k7e8/page/419/mode/1up?q=smeared
{{quote-text|en|year=2007|author=Tan Twan Eng|title=The Gift of Rain|location=New York|publisher=Weinstein Books|section=Book 1, Chapter 5, p. 56|url=https://archive.org/details/giftofrain00tant/page/56/mode/1up?q=smeared
To become messy or not clear by being spread.
To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
(quote-book)|location=New York|publisher=Fawcett|year_published=1971|chapter=2|page=84|url=https://archive.org/details/mrsammlersplanet1970bell/page/84/mode/1up?q=smeared
(quote-text)|publisher=Penguin|section=Part 3, Chapter 39, p. 311|url=https://archive.org/details/whitenoise00deli/page/311/mode/1up?q=smear
(quote-book)|location=New York|publisher=Grove Press|year_published=2002|chapter=The Freshwater Crayfish|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=VRPnBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
(quote-book)|title=A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome,|location=London|publisher=Tinsley Brothers|volume=1|chapter=3|page=43|url=https://archive.org/details/missiontogelelek18641burt/page/43/mode/1up?q=smeared
{{quote-book|en|year=1917|author=William Carlos Williams|chapter=Pastoral|title=Al Que Quiere!|location=Boston|publisher=The Four Seas Company|page=15|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofpoem100willrich/page/15/mode/1up?q=smeared
{{quote-text|en|year=1993|author=Vikram Seth|title=A Suitable Boy|publisher=Penguin|year_published=1994|section=Chapter 2.1, p. 73|url=https://archive.org/details/suitableboy0000seth/page/73/mode/1up?q=smeared
To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
(RQ:Dickens Great Expectations) he smeared his ragged rough sleeve over his eyes.
(quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/sophieschoicesty00styr/page/58/mode/1up?q=smeared|chapter=3|page=58|publisher=Random House|location=New York
{{quote-text|en|year=2013|author=Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie|title=Americanah|url=https://archive.org/details/americanah00chim/page/74/mode/1up?q=%22smear+their%22|chapter=6|page=74|publisher=Knopf|location=New York
To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
(RQ:Dickens Oliver Twist) a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck, with the long frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke:
{{quote-book|en|year=1926|author=D. H. Lawrence|title=The Plumed Serpent|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|year_published=1955|chapter=5|page=85|url=https://archive.org/details/plumedserpent0000lawr/page/76/mode/2up?q=smear
1960, (w), “Holiday” in Douglas and Sylvia Angus (eds.), ''Contemporary American Short Stories,'' New York: Ballantine, 1983, p.(nbs)323,https://archive.org/details/contemporaryamer00angu/page/323/mode/1up?q=smearing
- (..) she stood and shook with silent crying, smearing away her tears with the open palm of her hand.
To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
A mark made by smearing.
{{quote-book|en|year=1886|author=Thomas Hardy|title=The Mayor of Casterbridge|location=London|publisher=Smith, Elder|volume=2|chapter=8|page=108|url=https://archive.org/details/mayorofcasterbri02hard/page/108/mode/1up?q=smear
{{quote-text|en|year=1933|author=Robert Byron|title=First Russia, Then Tibet|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|section=Part 2, Chapter 8|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20170539/html.php
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|chapter=2|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20120508/html.php
(quote-text)|location=London|publisher=Picador|section=Part 2, p. 228|url=https://archive.org/details/sea00banv/page/228/mode/1up?q=smear
A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
{{quote-book|en|year=1752|author=Theophilus Cibber|title=A Lick at a Liar|location=London|publisher=R. Griffiths|page=7|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806911.0001.000
(RQ:Toole Confederacy of Dunces)
A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.Edwin Benzel Steen, ''Dictionary of Biology,'' New York: Barnes & Noble, 1971.https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofbiol00edwi/page/504/mode/1up?q=smear
A smear (gloss).
Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
{{quote-text|en|year=1954|title=Radio & Television News: Radio-electronic engineering section
{{quote-text|en|year=1972|title=Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact