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plastered adjective [ ˈplɑːstəd ]

• very drunk.
• "I went out and got totally plastered"
• covered with or made of plaster.
• "coarsely plastered brickwork"

plaster verb

• cover (a wall, ceiling, or other structure) with plaster.
• "the inside walls were plastered and painted"
Similar: cover thickly, smother, spread, smear, cake, coat, daub, bedaub, overlay, besmear,
• apply a plaster cast or medical plaster to (a part of the body).
• bomb or shell (a target) heavily.
• "are they expecting the air force to plaster the city tonight or what?"
Origin: Old English, 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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