Definition of "besmears" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of besmear. (verb)

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• "And instead of repairing and heightening the piece judiciously, with soft colors and a delicate pencil, — with a coarse brush and a great deal of whitewash, he daubs and besmears the piece he means to adorn."
• "Hoccleve's Poems, with a Glossary; an Answer to Thomas Paine; the Life of Lord Howe; a Supplement to Johnson's Dictionary: in the ill-tempered preface to which, he thus strangely speaks of that Dictionary: -- "this muddiness of intellect sadly besmears and defaces almost every page of the composition.""
• "He staggers and falls; his head strikes the curb-stone; the blood besmears his face; the police lift him up and start with him to the station house."