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smudge

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Noun

  1. A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
  2. Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
  3. 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.
  4. A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.

Verb

  1. To obscure by blurring; to smear.
  2. To soil or smear with dirt.
  3. To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
  4. To stifle or smother with smoke.
  5. To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
  6. To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).

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