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| smudged | |
| 1. adj. Blurred as by being rubbed. |  |
| a smudged chalk drawing | |
| smudge | |
| 1. n. A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. | |
| There was a smudge on the paper. | |
| 2. n. Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation. | |
| 3. n. (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. | |
| 4. n. (neopaganism, especially, in the phrase "smudge stick" (=) "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation. | |
| 5. v. To obscure by blurring; to smear. | |
| 6. v. To soil or smear with dirt. | |
| 7. v. To use dense smoke to protect from insects. | |
| 8. v. To stifle or smother with smoke. | |
| 9. v. (paganism, intransitive) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation). | |
| 10. v. (paganism, transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging). | |
