besmear

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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

To foul with a dirty liquid; to besmear.

From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by Jennings, James

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 Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen

He will as surely soil and besmear with sin your moral garments as would contact with the most filthy object imaginable your outer garments.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey

The colours with which they besmear the bodies of both sexes possibly date from the same common origin.

From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin