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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.
4.a solid or semisolid preparation spread upon cloth, plastic, or other material and applied to the body, especially 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.).
EXPAND10.to overspread with something, especially 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.
COLLAPSE
Origin: before 1000; Middle English, Old English <
Medieval Latin plastrum plaster (both medical and building senses), aphetic variant of
Latin emplastrum <
Greek émplastron salve, alteration of
émplaston, neuter of
émplastos daubed;
see em-2, -plast Related formsplas·ter·er, noun
plas·ter·i·ness, noun
plas·ter·like, plas·ter·y, adjective
re·plas·ter, verb (used with object)
un·plas·ter, verb (used with object)
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| slang intoxicated; drunk |
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plastered definition
- mod.
alcohol intoxicated. : She's so plastered she can't see.
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