BESMEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does besmear mean? 

• BESMEAR (verb)
  The verb BESMEAR has 1 sense:

1. spread or daub (a surface)

  Familiarity information: BESMEAR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BESMEAR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they besmear    ... he / she / it besmears   
Past simple: besmeared   
Past participle: besmeared   
-ing form: besmearing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spread or daub (a surface)

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bedaub; besmear

Hypernyms (to "besmear" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

When all were ready, the king sent them to her; but she got up in the night when all were asleep, and took three of her trinkets, a golden ring, a golden necklace, and a golden brooch, and packed the three dresses—of the sun, the moon, and the stars—up in a nutshell, and wrapped herself up in the mantle made of all sorts of fur, and besmeared her face and hands with soot.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)