Dictionary Conventions
When looking up the word 'smudge' Google helpfully presents a definition. This inolves it in its phonetic form, it defined under two word classes, synonyms and anotonyms, the origin and usage over the years
The Free Dictionary .com
Goes beyond this to define it under different contexts (colloquially) and has a helpful tool enabling you to change its tense to explore modifications e.g Imperative - smudge, future - I will smudge, you will smudge, he/she/it will smudge, he will smudge, they will smudge, you will smudge ...etc
It also offers a thesaurus and translations.
To fully understand a word this is brilliant, enabling you to explore it under many context and understand how to use it appropriately. It doesn't speak of its etamology but for general use this is not of much interest anyway.
The Free Dictionary .com
Goes beyond this to define it under different contexts (colloquially) and has a helpful tool enabling you to change its tense to explore modifications e.g Imperative - smudge, future - I will smudge, you will smudge, he/she/it will smudge, he will smudge, they will smudge, you will smudge ...etc
It also offers a thesaurus and translations.
To fully understand a word this is brilliant, enabling you to explore it under many context and understand how to use it appropriately. It doesn't speak of its etamology but for general use this is not of much interest anyway.
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