smudging

/ ˈsmʌdʒɪŋ /

noun

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

Example Sentences

She obsessed about keeping her hair dry and avoided smudging her makeup at all costs.

From The 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.

From The Daily Beast

The rubbing, or rather smudging, from which the inscription was copied being nearly wholly illegible, accounts for the mistakes.

From Project Gutenberg

Beyond glinted the blue of the sea flecked with sails and with here and there a steamer's smoke smudging the horizon.

From Project Gutenberg

The failure to attend to smudging, even on one occasion, may result in the loss of the entire crop of plums, apples or pears.

From Project Gutenberg

Was it the smudging shadows, the still unlighted mass of them up there on the arms of the crucifix?

From Project Gutenberg

He left off drawing birds on branches and drew them only in flight, smudging in a blue background for the sky.

From Project Gutenberg