different between begrimed vs smeared

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begrimed

begrimed (not comparable)

Dirty, soiled, grimy.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 18,^[1]
  I knew Mr. Rochester; though the begrimed face, the disordered dress […] , the desperate and scowling countenance, the rough, bristling hair might well have disguised him.
- 1989, Hillel Halkin (translator), Five Seasons by A. B. Yehoshua, Doubleday, Part 4, Chapter 25, p. 277,^[2]
  […] he was surprised to find some half-eaten stringbeans and a crushed pack of cigarettes in the garbage pail. Though he was tempted to salvage the half-empty pack, it was already much too begrimed.

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