besmear
Example Sentences
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I had noticed before, in the Malmö prison, how the prisoners tried to besmear this glass, or scratch on it, with a sort of fury, so that it was often impossible to see through it.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
She was about to besmear her face, when lady Feng pleaded: "My dear child, do let me off this time!"
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
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
Put them to fry over a very quick fire in a pan first glased over, with no more Butter melted in it, then just to besmear a little all the bottom of the Pan.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
I was enforc'd to send it after him; I was beset with shame and courtesy; My honour would not let ingratitude So much besmear it.
From The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
