To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
To run together; to articulate poorly.
To insult or slight.
To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
An insinuation or innuendo.
An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
A mark, stain, or smear; (by extension) a slight occasion of reproach.
A disparaging insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.
A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
To make something dirty.
To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
To become messy or not clear by being spread.
To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
(of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
A mark made by smearing.
A rough glissando in jazz music.
A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.