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Smutch (verb) means to make something dirty with a mark or stain.

verb

To make something dirty with a mark or stain.

"Receive them all—and should you choose to touch them With one slant ray of quick, American light, Even the dust will have no power to smutch them, Even the worst will glitter in the night." — Stephen Vincent Benét, Invocation (1928)

"And then in came a wee girl of seven, with dirty face and pure blue eyes and a smutched and insufficient dress." — O. Henry, Supply and Demand (1909)

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