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Sao Paulo typhus (medicine) and smudge(3) (iou)


Sao Paulo typhus (medicine)


Sao Paulo typhus
Infection with Rickettsia rickettsii; spread by tick bite.

See: Rocky Mountain spotted fever.


smudge(3) (iou)



smudge verb1. LME.
[Prob. symbolic: cf. smirch, smut, etc.]
verb trans. Mark with a smudge or smudges; soil, stain. LME.
A. Ransome Eyes sore from smoke..and faces smudged with charcoal. P. Carey This was a boy..whose school books would be smudged and blotted.
b. fig. Defile, sully, disgrace. E17.
Guardian Weekly Those who opposed my attacks..found it much easier..to try to smudge my own character.
verb trans. Make a smudge of; rub out, paint on, etc., in a smearing or daubing manner; blur or smear the lines of. M19.
M. Atwood Her eyeshadow was smudged. fig.: A. N. Wilson Details of his disgrace..had been smudged by the passage of time.
verb intrans. Make or leave a smudge; become smeared or blurred. E20.
smudger noun (a) a person who smudges; (b) slang a street or press photographer: L19.