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empastifar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • daub noun Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
  • smear verb To spread a soft or sticky substance across a surface, often messily.

Senses

empastifar is used for these senses in English:

  • daub (intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
  • smear (transitive, derogatory) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.

daub — full definition

  1. noun Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
  2. noun A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
  3. noun A crude or amateurish painting.

smear — full definition

  1. verb To spread a soft or sticky substance across a surface, often messily.
  2. verb To damage someone's reputation with false or misleading accusations.
  3. noun A false, damaging claim meant to harm someone's reputation.
  4. noun A medical test made by spreading a thin sample on a slide, especially a cervical screening test.

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