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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

smudge

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Source Word

smudge

IPA(Pronunciation)

/smʌd͡ʒ/

Noun

countable uncountable US especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense"

A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. / Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.

Japanese Meaning

傷や汚れ、しみ（特に濃い色やすすによるもの） / 燻煙、濃い煙（消毒や儀式などに用いられる煙）

What is this buttons?

She noticed a small smudge on the photograph right after she had finished framing it.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

額に入れ終えた直後、彼女は写真に小さな汚れがあることに気づいた。

Sense（1）

A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.

There was a smudge on the paper.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.

Sense（3）

(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.

Then "smudges" are in vogue,—heaps of damp combustibles placed on the windward side of the house and partially ignited, that their inky steams may smother the mosquitoes while we take our chance. I have had a "smudge" made in a chafing-dish at my bedside, after a serious deliberation between choking and being devoured at small mouthfuls; and I conscientiously recommend choking, or running the risk of it, at least.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（4）

(paganism, especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.

smudges

（ plural ）

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