plaster

plural plasters · alternative plaister · alternative plastre

1. uncountableA paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.

   Then Jill came in, And she did grin, To see Jack's paper plaster; Her mother whipt her, Across her knee, For laughing at Jack's disaster.

   1810, Jack and Jill, and old Dame Gill, York: J. Kendrew, page 4

2. CanadaNew ZealandUKcountableA small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
3. uncountableA mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.

   Near-synonym: stucco (dedicated term for exterior type in some dialects)

   Synonyms: render, stucco, grout, stucco

4. countableuncountableA similar material used for exterior walls.

   Synonyms: stucco

5. countableA cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
6. uncountableby ellipsisPlaster of Paris.

present singular third person plasters · participle present plastering · participle past plastered · past plastered · alternative plaister · alternative plastre

1. transitiveTo cover or coat something with plaster; to render.

   to plaster a wall

2. transitiveTo apply a plaster to.

   to plaster a wound

3. transitiveTo smear with some viscous or liquid substance.

   Her face was plastered with mud.

4. transitiveTo hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.

   The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement.

5. transitiveTo cover a surface extensively with something, especially posters, pictures, or notices.

   The workmen plastered the wall with pictures.

   2 more examples

   If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.

   1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358

   Lillian walked the halls wearing a shirt plastered with what she assured everyone was a memetic stun agent; it looked just like the kill agent gating access to the SCP-001 database file, but as she patiently explained to McInnis, in art, context is everything.

   2024 September 28, HarryBlank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2024

6. figurativelytransitiveTo bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).

   1 more example

   Yeah, if you think that was bad... having, obviously, here, being people in the modern day and knowing something about the historical tactics used at the Battle of Samar, we did have, at one point, the American battleline sailing itself into a rain squall, staying in the rain squall, using large numbers of destroyers (with, obviously, all their smoke generators) to increase the cover in the rain squall and maintain it when the wet squall seemed to start dying off, and, through that, they just went "Right, activate radar, hello everybody, we can see you, you can't see us", and plastered everything in 14-and-16-inch gunfire until everything was broken, burning, and not able to fire back, and then they popped out for the coup de grâce.

   2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 30:36 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2022

7. figurativelytransitiveTo smooth over.

1. A surname.