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Definition of the day : « besmear »

  • verb defile
Example sentences :
  • They also besmear their bodies with grease and coloured earths.
  • Extract from : « The Natural History of the Varieties of Man » by Robert Gordon Latham
  • His intensity of loathing leads him to besmear his antagonists with filth.
  • Extract from : « Swift » by Leslie Stephen
  • They make little fires during the day, sleeping at night among the warm ashes, with which they besmear their bodies.
  • Extract from : « A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. » by Robert Kerr
  • In all history it has been shown that he who seeks to besmear others usually leaves the greatest amount of mud on himself.
  • Extract from : « My Attainment of the Pole » by Frederick A. Cook
  • When serpents sting, the only remedy is to kill the serpent, and besmear the wound with the fat.
  • Extract from : « Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2) » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The reverse of besmear is to rub off; hence to obliterate means to rub out, to erase.
  • Extract from : « Orthography » by Elmer W. Cavins
  • Letter (from L. linere, to besmear); so called because smeared on parchment and not cut on wood.
  • Extract from : « Orthography » by Elmer W. Cavins
  • The colours with which they besmear the bodies of both sexes possibly date from the same common origin.
  • Extract from : « A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson » by Watkin Tench
  • Was it honour and fair play to besmear my mother's name, to throw reflections upon my birth?
  • Extract from : « The Day of Judgment » by Joseph Hocking
  • They fashion his image of kadamb7 wood and besmear it with red lead.
  • Extract from : « The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India » by R. V. Russell