To obscure by blurring; to smear. / To soil or smear with dirt. / To use dense smoke to protect from insects. / To stifle or smother with smoke.

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

(obsolete, transitive) To make smug, or spruce. / (obsolete, transitive, slang) To seize; to confiscate. / (obsolete, transitive, slang) To hush up.

Irritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied. / Showing smugness; showing self-complacency, self-satisfaction.

present participle of smudge

The act of something being smudged. / A stain or smear left by something being smudged. / (paganism) Suffumigation.

plural of smudge

Kerosene flares with round bottoms and wicks in a protected cage. They were once used to mark highway construction sites and functioned as utility flares.

simple past tense and past participle of smudge

plural of smudge pot