smudge /smʌd͡ʒ/verb 6noun 4forms 3 verb6 •To obscure by blurring; to smear. •To soil or smear with dirt. •To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation). •To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).This is easily done using incense to smudge yourself or taking a cleansing bath. To smudge your body use an incense mixture such as sandalwood, lavender, frankincense or myrrh. — 2013 •To use dense smoke to protect from insects. •To stifle or smother with smoke. noun4 •A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.There was a smudge on the paper. •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.The use of smoke (or "smudges") against the attack of the mosquito is well understood in America and elsewhere. — 1901 •A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.Devil's dirt or asafetida ground together with fenugreek and black cumin seed is used as a smudge against witches and […] — 2006 formssmudged · smudging · smudges
