besmear
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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
Of course, you will cut your beautiful locks, besmear your cheeks, and there you are.
From Six Women and the Invasion by Gabrielle Yerta
At funerals, "the women besmear themselves with the most disgusting filth."
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
He sat behind his card-strewn counter holding the stencil brush like a sort of weapon ready to besmear that face of sneering assurance if its owner ventured too near.
From Pee-Wee Harris by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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
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