SMEARED Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

smeared

verb

past tense of smear

as in painted

to rub an oily or sticky substance over the toddler gleefully smeared her hair and face with maple syrup

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as in libeled

to make untrue and harmful statements about he is willing to smear his opponent if doing so would win the election

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Recent Examples of smeared Sweat glistened on the white foundation smeared across her face. — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026 One prank involved Quan, Capshaw, and Harrison Ford surprising Spielberg with ice cream smeared all over their faces for one take. — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2026 The bombshell discovery in the little red dot spectra was that the colors of hydrogen were smeared out across multiple shades. — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026 Camille can still picture Burke standing over her, fake blood smeared across her dress. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026 There’s rarely anything as straightforward as a kick drum, a hi-hat, or even a bassline here; instead, everything is smeared, all origins occulted in a thicket of echoes and reflections. — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 4 Aug. 2026 In 2012 an angler pulled a brown bullhead out of a lake on the Vermont-Quebec border with what looked like tar smeared across its skin. — John Drake, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 Cara Mangini spoons these luscious tomatoes over crostini that she’s smeared with goat cheese or ricotta, then tops each with extra basil. — Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 18 July 2026 Investigators said two operatives from Russia’s military traveled to Britain under aliases, smeared the poison on the front door of Skripal’s home and boarded a flight back to Moscow. — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 11 July 2026

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While the weather painted a chaotic picture, stories from Malibu residents were of neighbors coming together as a community in a way only the specter of disaster could prompt.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Her fingernails were painted pink, and her body was bound with rope and appeared to be in a state of mummification.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of painted

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However, Rob Shuter is reporting that Meghan believes Kate purposefully humiliated her by recently taking Princess Charlotte on the London Underground.

— Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 15 Oct. 2026
His daughter is humiliated, and the message could not be clearer.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of humiliated

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Researchers then installed the electrodes and coated the structure with sputtered gold.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
Increase heat to medium-high; cook, adding more pasta cooking liquid as needed, until pasta is al dente and coated in sauce, 2–3 minutes.

— Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of coated

Verb

Despite their high-profile 1996 divorce, disgraced ex-Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson remained extremely close for years.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2026
Hugo Weaving plays a brilliant but disgraced attorney, drowning in debt, who reluctantly defends an allegedly dangerous dog, battling to save its life.

— Emily Longeretta, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of disgraced

Verb

To his right, Morello’s teenage son Roman, who ripped out a solo with his electric guitar behind his back, the instrument daubed with a call to action for homeless rights.

— Lars Brandle, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2026
The dimming sun and a few gauzy clouds are daubed across the sky.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 July 2026

Definition of daubed

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Bookshelves are crammed with novels and almanacs, the wood boards of the ceilings stained dark in delicious contrast to the clean white walls and creamy linen furnishings.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
The yellow color from the fenbendazole stained his white goatee.

— Trisha Thadani Kirsten Potter Tanya Pérez Devin Murphy, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of stained

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