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smear

B2 verb
us /smiɚ/

smear /smɪə(ɹ)/ nghĩa là bôi, quệt

Các nghĩa

  1. bôi, quệt

    To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.

    transitive

    The artist smeared paint over the canvas in broad strokes.

    A person smeared with the excrement of a mouse was rendered impotent, according to Pliny the Elder.

    Then you would kneel and smear a handful of pomade through my hair, comb it over.

  2. phủ, trát

    To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.

    transitive

    She smeared her lips with lipstick.

    Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry them; and smear The sleepy grooms with blood.

    […] a Vessel of huge bulk, Measur’d by Cubit, length, & breadth, and highth, Smeard round with Pitch,

  3. làm bẩn

    To make something dirty.

    transitive

    A man may bee smeared or grimed, and euerie man shall laugh at him, and yet he himselfe shall not perceiue it a whit.

    […] she returned, carrying Johnnie, his face all smeared with eating,

    His hands and forearms, his face, his good shirt and suit are smeared from the dustbins and climbing the fence,

  4. làm bẩn, vấy bẩn

    (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.

    transitive

    a pallor which was accentuated by the blood which smeared her lips and cheeks and chin

    a rust spot smearing the back of the sink

    Wet leaves smeared the pavement.

  5. bôi nhọ, vu khống

    To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.

    derogatory · transitive

    The opposition party attempted to smear the candidate by spreading incorrect and unverifiable rumors about their personal behavior.

    May everlasting shame consume The memory of those who tried To befoul and smear th’ exalted name Of one who spurned them in his pride.

    They’ll smear him on the country’s dial-up bulletin boards as the worst traitor.

  6. làm nhòe, làm lem

    To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.

    transitive

    Then there are four lines smeared so that I can only read went 5 days ago.

    Bird droppings, smeared by the strokes of rain and dried by the heat, streaked its sides.

+ 2 nghĩa khác

  1. bị nhòe, bị lem

    To become messy or not clear by being spread.

    intransitive

    The paint is still wet — don't touch it or it will smear.

  2. viết hoặc vẽ bằng cách bôi chất gì đó

    To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.

    transitive

    ciphers smeared on the windows of condemned shops

    smear crude words on the walls in the victim’s own blood as evidence of his final cult-related frenzy

    […] she brought a red daubed finger up to my cheek & began to smear markings on my face.

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