Difference between Smear and Daub

What is the difference between Smear and Daub?

Smear as a verb is to spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing. while Daub as a verb is to apply something to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.

Smear

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing. To have a substance smeared on (a surface). To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about an individual, their statements, or their actions. To become spread by smearing.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A mark made by smearing. A Pap smear. A false attack.

Example sentence: I don't particularly want to smear myself into a hillside.

Daub

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A soft coating of mud, plaster etc.A crude or amateurish painting.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To apply something to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.

We hope you now know whether to use Smear or Daub in your sentence.

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