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1. Slanderous defamation
   - vilification, malignment
    
2. A thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
   - cytologic smear, cytosmear
    
3. A blemish made by dirt
   "he had a smear on his cheek";
   - smudge, spot, blot, daub, smirch, slur
    
4. An act that brings discredit to the person who does it
   "he made a huge smear on his copybook";
   - blot, smirch, spot, stain

1. Stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
    
2. Make a smudge on; soil by smudging
   - blur, smudge, smutch
    
3. Cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
   "smear the wall with paint";
   - daub
    
4. Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
   "The journalists have smeared me!";
   - defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate [formal], sully, besmirch

Derived forms: smears, smearing, smeared

Type of: accuse, begrime, bemire [archaic], blemish, calumniation, calumny, charge, colly [archaic], cover, cytologic specimen, defamation, defect, dirty, error, fault, grime, hatchet job, mar, mistake, obloquy, rub, soil, traducement

Encyclopedia: Smear, Steve