besmear
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I lose myself in the recollections of my childhood like an old man … I do not expect anything further in life than a succession of sheets of paper to besmear with black.
From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by Aimée G. Leffingwel McKenzie
The reverse of besmear is to rub off; hence to obliterate means to rub out, to erase.
From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Elmer W. Cavins
At funerals, "the women besmear themselves with the most disgusting filth."
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
Overstain, ō-vėr-stān′, v.t. to besmear the surface of.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
The women besmear themselves with the most disgusting filth.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Sir James George Frazer
