Definitions For Smear

noun

• An act that brings discredit to the person who does it
• A blemish made by dirt
• A thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
• Slanderous defamation
• A dirty mark, spot, streak, etc., made by touching or rubbing something
• A very small sample of something (such as skin or blood) that someone examines with a microscope
• An untrue story about a person that is meant to hurt that person's reputation

verb

• Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
• Cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
• Make a smudge on; soil by smudging
• Stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
• To make (something) dirty by rubbing it with something else
• To spread (something) over a surface
• To spread or drip in an untidy way