Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to smutch
Participle: smutched
Gerund: smutching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | smutch |
| you | smutch |
| he;she;it | smutches |
| we | smutch |
| you | smutch |
| they | smutch |
Perfect
| I | have smutched |
| you | have smutched |
| he;she;it | has smutched |
| we | have smutched |
| you | have smutched |
| they | have smutched |
Past
| I | smutched |
| you | smutched |
| he;she;it | smutched |
| we | smutched |
| you | smutched |
| they | smutched |
Pluperfect
| I | had smutched |
| you | had smutched |
| he;she;it | had smutched |
| we | had smutched |
| you | had smutched |
| they | had smutched |
Future
| I | will smutch |
| you | will smutch |
| he;she;it | will smutch |
| we | will smutch |
| you | will smutch |
| they | will smutch |
Future Perfect
| I | will have smutched |
| you | will have smutched |
| he;she;it | will have smutched |
| we | will have smutched |
| you | will have smutched |
| they | will have smutched |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | smutch |
| you | smutch |
| he;she;it | smutch |
| we | smutch |
| you | smutch |
| they | smutch |
Perfect
| I | have smutched |
| you | have smutched |
| he;she;it | have smutched |
| we | have smutched |
| you | have smutched |
| they | have smutched |
Imperfect
| I | smutched |
| you | smutched |
| he;she;it | smutched |
| we | smutched |
| you | smutched |
| they | smutched |
Pluperfect
| I | had smutched |
| you | had smutched |
| he;she;it | had smutched |
| we | had smutched |
| you | had smutched |
| they | had smutched |
Conditional
Present
| I | would smutch |
| you | would smutch |
| he;she;it | would smutch |
| we | would smutch |
| you | would smutch |
| they | would smutch |
Perfect
| I | would have smutched |
| you | would have smutched |
| he;she;it | would have smutched |
| we | would have smutched |
| you | would have smutched |
| they | would have smutched |
Imperative
| you | smutch |
| we | Let's smutch |
| you | smutch |
Verbs conjugated like 'smutch'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'smutch'
scutch,
smatch,
besmutch,
clutch,
crutch,
dutch,
Dutch,
glutch,
grutch,
hutch,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make physically dirty
- assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, bedizen, befile, befoul, begrime, beray, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, contaminate, darken, denigrate, dirty, drag through the mud, dull, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, pollute, sling mud, slotter, slur, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, taint, tarnish, uggle
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Perhaps an alteration of smudge, smatch, or smooch.
Sample Sentences
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Why, that’s my bawcock. What, hast smutch’d thy nose?
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They say it is a copy out of mine. [c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:]
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Have you seene but a bright Lilly grow,
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Before rude hands have touch’d it?
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Have you mark’d but the fall of Snow,
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Before the soyle hath smutch’d it? [1616, Ben Jonson, The Divell is an Asse, London, published 1641, act II, scene 6, page 26:]
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And then in came a wee girl of seven, with dirty face and pure blue eyes and a smutched and insufficient dress. [1909, O. Henry, “Supply and Demand”, in Options, New York: Harper, page 126:]
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Receive them all—and should you choose to touch them
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With one slant ray of quick, American light,
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Even the dust will have no power to smutch them,
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Even the worst will glitter in the night. [1928, Stephen Vincent Benét, “Invocation”, in John Brown’s Body, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 7:]