impaste

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/ɪmˈpeɪst/

verb

To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.

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Meanings

verbimpaste (third-person singular simple present impastes, present participle impasting, simple past and past participle impasted)

present singular third person impastes · participle present impasting · participle past impasted · past impasted

  1. archaictransitiveTo knead; to make into paste; to concrete.

    With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, Baked and impasted with the parching streets

    c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]
  2. artTo lay colours thickly on canvas by the impasto technique.

Origin

From im- (“in”) + paste. Compare Italian impastare, Old French empaster.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with impaste

basedtastefacedpastewaistpacedspacedhastechasedlacedcasedbracedchastedistastebasteabasedunchastelambasteawastebumbastepost-hastesmastesnastetwo-faced
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Anagrams

pastime
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APA

impaste. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/impaste

MLA

“impaste.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/impaste. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “impaste,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/impaste.

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