0 past simple and past participle of smear --
1 to spread a liquid or a thick substance over a surface: --
2 to publicly accuse someone of something unpleasant, unreasonable, or unlikely to be true in order to harm their reputation: --
The hot spots generated by the blue pulse are smeared out due to the smoothing effect of the preformed plasma.
The suspension was smeared on a glass slide and eggs were identified under a microscope.
This clay fraction was smeared on glass slides and air dried in atmospheric conditions.
For good luck, some of the victims' blood is smeared on the sight.
The vortex jump region becomes smeared out and viscosity acts over a larger axial distance.
Finally, the filament will be smeared along the magnetospheric field near the magnetopause.
The mean shock location is clearly visible in the profiles at station 10 (note that the shock is smeared owing to averaging).
Rather, the fine structure will be smeared by diffusion.
