smudge• Ella had a smudge of greenpaint on her cheek.• Typically the fisherman is a lone black smudgehunched on his bait-box for hours at a time.• Over on the horizon there was a dark-blue smudge of land to be seen only in first clear light.• This rumor contains smudges of truth.• Sometimes a fingerpressed over semi-wet paint will create a controlled smudge for distantbranches.• Nothing on it, just a few smudges.• There was a lipsticksmudge on the rim of my cup.• Suddenly a flock of all-dark shearwaters appeared, only the underwing showing a palesmudge.• It can invert, flip, rotate, scale, stretch, smudge and anything else you might want it to do.• You can't hand your homework in with those smudges all over it.• Purple lines floated on the surfaces of his eyes, coming briefly into focus, then retreating into vaguesmudges.
smudge2 verb
1[intransitiveI, transitiveT]MARK if ink, writing etc smudges, or if you smudge it, it becomes dirty and unclear because it has been touched or rubbed 〔墨迹、字迹等〕被弄脏,被蹭脏;把…擦模糊
Don’t touch it! You’ll smudge the ink.
别碰它!你会把墨水抹花的。
2[transitiveT]MARK to make a dirty mark on a surface 弄脏,使变脏
Someone had smudged the paper with their greasy hands.