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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Smirch

· IPA /smɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃ/
01 v. t. To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.
  1. 1.
    To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.
    “I'll . . . with a kind of umber smirch my face.” Shak.
02 n. A smutch; a dirty stain.
  1. 1.
    A smutch; a dirty stain.