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(skum′bəl)

transitive verb scumbled, scumbling

1. to soften the outlines or color of (a painting) by applying a thin coat of opaque color
2. to apply (color) in this manner
to soften the outlines of (a drawing) by rubbing or blurring
to make by either of these processes

Origin: freq. of scum

noun

a coat of color added in scumbling
the softening of outline produced by scumbling

See scumble in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb scum·bled, scum·bling, scum·bles

To soften the colors or outlines of (a painting or drawing) by covering with a film of opaque or semiopaque color or by rubbing.
To blur the outlines of: a writer who scumbled the line that divides history and fiction.

noun

The effect produced by or as if by scumbling.
Material used for scumbling.

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Origin: Possibly from scum

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