smudge🔊

A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.

Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.

(US) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.

(paganism) A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.

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.

(paganism) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).

(paganism) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation).