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Definition of plastered - 4 dictionary results

plas⋅tered

  [plas-terd, plah-sterd]
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–adjective Slang.
drunk.
Origin:
1910–15; plaster + -ed 2

plas⋅ter

  [plas-ter, plah-ster]
–noun
1. a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
2. powdered gypsum.
3. plaster of Paris.
4. a solid or semisolid preparation spread upon cloth, plastic, or other material and applied to the body, esp. for some healing purpose.
–verb (used with object)
5. to cover (walls, ceilings, etc.) with plaster.
6. to treat with gypsum or plaster of Paris.
7. to lay flat like a layer of plaster.
8. to daub or fill with plaster or something similar.
9. to apply a plaster to (the body, a wound, etc.).
10. to overspread with something, esp. thickly or excessively: a wall plastered with posters.
11. Informal.
a. to defeat decisively; trounce; drub.
b. to knock down or injure, as by a blow or beating.
c. to inflict serious damage or injury on by heavy bombing, shelling, or other means of attack.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME, OE < ML plastrum plaster (both medical and building senses), aph. var. of L emplastrum < Gk émplastron salve, alter. of émplaston, neut. of émplastos daubed; see em- 2 , -plast

Related forms:
plas⋅ter⋅er, noun
plas⋅ter⋅i⋅ness, noun
plas⋅ter⋅like, plas⋅ter⋅y, adjective
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plas·ter   (plās'tər)   
n.  
  1. A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with fiber added, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
  2. Plaster of Paris.
  3. A pastelike mixture applied to a part of the body for healing or cosmetic purposes. Also called sticking plaster.
  4. Chiefly British An adhesive bandage.
v.   plas·tered, plas·ter·ing, plas·ters

v.   tr.
  1. To cover, coat, or repair with plaster.
  2. To cover or hide with or as if with a coat of plaster: plastered over our differences.
  3. To apply a plaster to: plaster an aching muscle.
    1. To cover conspicuously, as with things pasted on; overspread: plaster the walls with advertising.
    2. To affix conspicuously, usually with a paste: plaster notices on all the doors.
    3. To inflict heavy damage or injury on.
    4. To defeat decisively.
  5. To make smooth by applying a sticky substance: plaster one's hair with pomade.
  6. To make adhere to another surface: "His hair was plastered to his forehead" (William Golding).
  7. Informal
    1. To inflict heavy damage or injury on.
    2. To defeat decisively.
v.   intr.
To apply plaster.

[Middle English, from Old English, medical dressing, and from Old French plastre, cementing material, both from Latin emplastrum, medical dressing, from Greek emplastron, from emplassein, to plaster on : en-, in, on; see en-2 + plassein, to mold; see pelə-2 in Indo-European roots.]
plas'ter·er n., plas'ter·y adj.
plas·tered   (plās'tərd)   
adj.   Slang
Intoxicated; drunk.
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