smudging

/ (ˈsmʌdʒɪŋ) /

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noun

a traditional Native American method of using smoke from burning herbs to purify a space

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How to use smudging in a sentence

She obsessed about keeping her hair dry and avoided smudging her makeup at all costs.
Another Natalee Holloway?|Barbie Latza Nadeau|August 12, 2011|DAILY BEAST
I like taking that old Hollywood idea and putting rock and roll on top of it and messing it up and smudging it.
Evan Rachel Wood Grows Up|Rachel Syme|June 16, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The rubbing, or rather smudging, from which the inscription was copied being nearly wholly illegible, accounts for the mistakes.
Notes and Queries, Number 137, June 12, 1852|Various
Beyond glinted the blue of the sea flecked with sails and with here and there a steamer's smoke smudging the horizon.
The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone|Richard Bonner

The failure to attend to smudging, even on one occasion, may result in the loss of the entire crop of plums, apples or pears.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3|Various
Was it the smudging shadows, the still unlighted mass of them up there on the arms of the crucifix?
The Scarecrow and Other Stories|G. Ranger Wormser
He left off drawing birds on branches and drew them only in flight, smudging in a blue background for the sky.
The Nest Builder|Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

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