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Plastering
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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.
2.
powdered gypsum.
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.
EXPANDto apply a plaster to (the body, a wound, etc.).
10.
to overspread with something, especially thickly or excessively: a wall plastered with posters.
11.
COLLAPSEInformal.
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:
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
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 forms
plas·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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