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    plas·ter
    [ˈplastər]
    verb
    plastering (present participle)
    1. cover (a wall, ceiling, or other structure) with plaster.
      • (plaster something with/in)
        coat or cover something with (a substance), especially to an extent considered excessive:
        "a face plastered in heavy makeup"
      • make (hair) lie flat by applying a liquid to it:
        "his hair was plastered down with water"
      • apply a plaster cast or medical plaster to (a part of the body).
      • (plaster something with)
        cover a surface with (large numbers of pictures or posters):
        "the store windows are plastered with posters"
      • (plaster something over)
        present a story or picture conspicuously and sensationally in (a newspaper or magazine):
        "her story was plastered all over the December issue"
      • informal
        dated
        bomb or shell (a target) heavily.
    Origin
    Old English plaster, denoting a bandage spread with a curative substance, from medieval Latin plastrum (shortening of Latin emplastrum, from Greek emplastron ‘daub, salve’), later reinforced by the Old French noun plastre. Sense 1 dates from late Middle English.
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    verb
    1. cover (a wall, ceiling, or other structure) with plaster.
      smother
      spread
      smear
      cake
      coat
      daub
      bedaub
      overlay
      besmear
      cover thickly
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