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Definition: Besmear |
BesmearVerb1. Spread or daub over. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "besmear" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Note: Besmear \Be*smear"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Besmeared; present participle verb or noun Besmearing.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: BesmearSynonyms: bedaub (v), smear (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar; wash; besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash; parget; lay it on thick. |
Uncleanness | Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Besmear |
| English words defined with "besmear": Begore, Belime, Besmearing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "besmear": Illinition ♦ Oblite ♦ Synalepha. (references) |
Expression using "besmear": besmear with. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "besmear"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndyj (bedraggle, besmirch, contaminate, dirty, foul, plaster, pollute, soil, sully), lyros, laturis (daub, dirty, soil), fëlliq (bedraggle, blur, bring in the mire, contaminate, daub, defile, dirty, draggle, foul, mire, pollute, soil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لوث (bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, degrade, dirty, discredit, file, foul, pollute, smear, smirch, soil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish), لطخ (bedaub, blot, blotch, blur, daub, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, splash, splotch, spot, stain, streak, sully, taint, tarnish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | оплесквам (dash, dub, foozle, foul up, hash, louse up, make a mess, make sad work of, mess, muddle, muff, screw up, slobber, spatter, splash, sully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | umazat (smear, soil, spot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | barbouiller (bedaub), salir (befoul, begrime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beschmieren (bedaub, daub, scrawl all over, smear, spread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λερώνω (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, besmirch, bespatter, blacken, defile, dirty, foul, grime, moil, set off, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splotch, spot, stain, sully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לטשטש (blot, blur, deface, discolour, haze, smudge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megken (grease, spread, to dub, to glaze, to grease, to palm, to plaster, to square). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | impiastrare (daub). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sollaghey (assault, assault sexually, begrime, besmirch, contaminate, contamination, defile, defilement, dirty, grime, muck, muddy, pollute, pollution, soil, soiling, stain, sully), slaa (bedaub, blotch of colour, dash, daub, daubing, paint; blotting, painting, plaster, smarm, smear, smearing; dab of paint, spatter, spread, spreading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esmearbay besuntar (dirty, grease, smear, stain, sully), sujar (bedabble, befoul, begrime, besmirch, blemish, blotch, daub, defile, dirt, dirty, dishallow, Drabble, draggle-tail, foul, grimy, make it wrong, mess around, mucker, mudguard, slubber, smirch, smoke, smudge, soil, stain, sully). (various references) unge (anoint, coat, dab, daub, dope, dub, embrocate, grease, grease smb.'s palm, lubricate, nobble, oil, oil smb.'s palms, palm, pomade, salve, smear, soap, whitewash), stropi (asperse, beddable, besmirch, dabble, damp, dash, drop, irrigate, perfuse, smear, smirch, sparge, spatter, speck, splash, splatter, splutter, spray, sprinkle, sputter, squirt, water), spurca (besmirch, defile, desecrate, dirty, smear, smirch, soil, taint, vitiate), pângãri (defile, desecrate, dishonor, dishonour, foul, stain, violate), murdãri (bedraggle, begrime, besmirch, blot, contaminate, defile, foul, litter, mess, muck, muddy, pollute, puddle, slop, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, splash, splatter, spot, stain, sully, tarnish), mânji (bedaub, beddable, besmirch, blur, daub, defile, foul, grime, mess, smirch, soil, stain, sully). (various references) марать, пачкать (befoul, begrime, besmirch, daub, mess, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splotch, spot, sully). (various references) ùill (besmear with oil). (various references) zamrljati (deface), zamazati (besmirch, gild the pill, slush, smear, smudge, soil), razmrljati. (various references) embadurnar (bedaub, daub). (various references) fläcka ner (blotch). (various references) ทำให้เปื้อน"้วย (besmear with). (various references) bulaştırmak (bedabble, bedaub, blur, communicate, contaminate, corrupt, daub, dirty, drag, embroil, entangle, imbrue, implicate, infect, involve, inweave, propagate, slush, smear, smudge, splodge, splotch, spread, taint, transmit, twine), pisletmek (befoul, begrime, bemire, besmirch, dirty, grime, make a mess of, make dirty, mess, muck, smutch, soil), kirletmek (bedaub, befoul, begrime, bemire, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, dirty, foul, foul up, grime, make dirty, mess, pollute, rape, slur, smear, smirch, smutch, soil, spatter, stain, sully, tarnish, vitiate), karalamak (bedaub, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot out, breathe upon, calumniate, chalk out, dash, dash down, dash off, denigrate, doodle, draw, line through, pollute, rule smth. out, scandalize, score out, scrabble, scratch, scribble, scribble down, smudge, smut, strike through). (various references) засмальцювати (daggle), забруднити (bedaub, bruckle, mire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | delibuti. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "besmear": besmeared, besmearing, besmears. (additional references) | |
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"Besmear" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: besemer, Besmer, Besnier, Bessera, Besserat, Bessner, Bilsmoor, blesmag, Boersema, Bosmere, eimear, reswear. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ambeers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-m-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ambeer, ambers, ameers, bermes, breams, embars, embers, ramees, seamer. | |
-2 letters: amber, ameer, bares, barms, baser, beams, bears, beers, bemas, berme, berms, braes, bream, brees, embar, ember, erase, mabes, mares, marse, maser, meres, ramee, reams, saber, sabre, saree, smear. | |
-3 letters: arbs, ares, arms, arse, bams, bare, barm, bars, base, beam, bear, beer, bees, bema. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: amberies, besmears, embraces. | |
+2 letters: abamperes, assembler, bedframes, bedmakers, besmeared, beswarmed, embalmers, embargoes, emblazers, embracers, embrasure, jamborees, marbleise, membranes, miserable, preambles, reembarks, streambed. | |
+3 letters: assemblers, barometers, besmearing, blasphemer, blastomere, clamberers, debarments, descramble, embraceors, embrangles, embrasures, lebensraum, marbleised, marbleises, marbleizes, measurable, mensurable, misbehaver, miserables, presumable, reassemble, reassembly, resemblant, streambeds. | |
+4 letters: ambergrises, bacteremias, barometries, bedchambers, blasphemers, blastomeres, descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, disembarked, drumbeaters, embarkments, embarrassed, embarrasses, emblazoners, embraceries, lebensraums, misbehavers, rabblements, reassembled, reassembles, resemblance, rhabdomeres, timberheads. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 73 6D 65 61 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . ... -- . .- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110011 01101101 01100101 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e s m e a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0073 006D 0065 0061 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36718579716784 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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