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besmearing

verb

present participle of besmear
as in smearing
to rub an oily or sticky substance over besmeared the napkin with jelly

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  1. smearing
  2. painting
  3. coating
Verb
  • People are smearing the electric-blue tincture on their face or drawing the concoction up in syringes.
    — Will Stone, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026
  • At the entrance of Kollparay, Quispe pauses, taking my hands and smearing them with soil—the soil of her village.
    — Paola Miglio, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2026
Definition of smearing
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  • The lawsuit also accuses two men in Peru of painting a series of works purportedly signed by Warhol and arranging for the canvases to be shipped to Roberts’s gallery.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Sesame proteins were found in a red sample from a coffin fragment and a tomb wall painting fragment, and moringa proteins were detected on a coffin sample.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of painting
Verb
  • Spray from top to bottom, coating the glass and screens evenly.
    — Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of assessing the particle only as a whole, researchers used instrumented indentation to examine the response of its individual coating layers.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of coating
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“Besmearing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/besmearing. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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