Crossword-Solution: SMUDGE 6 letters, 81 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Smudge	n.	A suffocating smoke.
Smudge	n.	A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
Smudge	n.	That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.
Smudge	v. t.	To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.
Smudge	v. t.	To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SMUDGE	anagram	DEGUMS

We have 81 clues for the answer “SMUDGE”

Clue	Answers
Indistinct fingerprint, e.g.	1 answer
Nuisance for lefties	1 answer
Messy mark	1 answer
Mascara mark, maybe	1 answer
Mark that might be left with greasy fingers	1 answer
Mark left by buttery fingers	1 answer
Mark from dirty fingers	1 answer
Mark from an old eraser	1 answer
Lipstick mark, e.g.	1 answer
Leaky-pen leaving	1 answer
Photo marrer	1 answer
Greasy fingerprint, maybe	1 answer
Greasy fingerprint, e.g.	1 answer
Fire in an orchard	1 answer
Erasure remnant	1 answer
Erasure mark	1 answer
Eraser mark	1 answer
Eraser leaving	1 answer
Dirty streak	1 answer
Dirty smear	1 answer
Soot mark	1 answer
Blurred streak	1 answer
make or become smeared or soiled	1 answer
leaving Eraser Kind of	1 answer
___ stick (bundle of herbs burned ritually)	1 answer
Window cleaner's target	1 answer
Visible fingerprint	1 answer
Target for a gum eraser	1 answer
Blur or smear, as with ink	1 answer
Soot spot	1 answer
Dirt stain	1 answer
Soil or blur	1 answer
Smoky fire, used to protect fruit from frost.	1 answer
Smeary mark	1 answer
Smear, blur	1 answer
Smear mark	1 answer
Result of careless erasure	1 answer
Result of blinking too soon after putting on mascara, perhaps	1 answer
Polisher's target	1 answer
Photocopy flaw	1 answer
Dense smoke to drive away insects.	1 answer
A fingerprint can leave one	1 answer
Anti-mosquito fire	1 answer
Artist's goof	1 answer
Avocado grove pot	1 answer
Blotch on a phone's screen	1 answer
Blurry spot	1 answer
Calligraphy accident	1 answer
Calligraphy goof	1 answer
Mascara mishap	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

ECMEAZ

Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Sentences with SMUDGE (5)

That there is little hope of that is evidenced by the fact that during all the days we have drifted we have seen no sail, nor the faintest smudge of smoke upon the horizon.

The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

After surveying the sketch critically she drew a broad smudge of paint across its surface, and crumpled the paper between her hands.

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994

Across her forehead, her little pale forehead, under the shadow of her royal hair, he would surely see the smudge of a foul ordure, the footprint of the monster.

McTeague Frank Norris 2006

Across that white forehead was no smudge, no trace of an earthly pollution--no mark of a terrestrial dishonour.

The Octopus Frank Norris 2008

Far down in the east a small black smudge upon the pearl-colored and vaporous horizon was all they could discern of a walled city filled with factories for the working of hemp and furs and alum and silk and bitumen.

The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 2008

Quotes with SMUDGE (3)

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Mitch Albom The Five People You Meet in Heaven

There's nothing you can do about the past." "You're wrong. I can learn from it..." Tariq dug his heels into his stallion's flanks, and the horse shot forward, painting a dark smudge across the sand. "And I can make sure it never happens again!

Renee Ahdieh The Wrath and the Dawn

Minimalism is a girl's best asset, blend tones, smudge hard outlines; if all else fails; Photoshop it.

Judith Chambers

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 78 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).