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(verb) coat with plaster |
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Synonyms: daub |
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Related Words: coat, mortar, mud, parget, roughcast, surface |
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(verb) apply a heavy coat to |
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Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
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Related Words: cover |
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(verb) apply a plaster cast to; "plaster the broken arm" |
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Related Words: cover |
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(verb) affix conspicuously; "She plastered warnings all over the wall" |
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Related Words: affix, stick on |
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(verb) cover conspicuously, as by pasting something on; "The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters" |
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Related Words: cover |
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(noun) used in dressing wounds |
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Synonyms: adhesive plaster, sticking plaster |
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Related Words: adhesive tape, court plaster, shinplaster |
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(noun) a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings |
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Related Words: covering material, finish coat, finishing coat, grout, mixture, parget, pargeting, roughcast, spackle, spackling compound, stucco |
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(verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance |
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Synonyms: poultice |
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Related Words: dress |
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(noun) any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs |
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Synonyms: plaster of Paris |
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Related Words: calcium sulphate |
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(noun) a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. |
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Synonyms: cataplasm, poultice |
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Related Words: medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine, mustard plaster, sinapism |
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