plaster 1 of 2

as in dressing
a medicated covering used to heal an injury put a plaster on the burn and don't touch it

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plaster

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verb

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Noun
See them In Morlaix, France, restorations of the Jacobin convent revealed hidden paintings beneath plaster, dating back to the 13th century. Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025 Displays hung on white walls veined with cracking plaster touch on the tribe’s history. Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
Late in the second, Jack McBain plastered Rinzel into the end wall — welcome to the NHL, kid. Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025 The fairgrounds where the cowboys stop for lunch are plastered with Wanted posters bearing a sketch of Teonna. Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for plaster
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Noun
  • Change the dressing once a day, ideally after cleaning the area.
    Alisa Hrustic, SELF, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The acidity of the tomatoes helps cut through the richness of the dressing.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Drape a denim jacket over top to nail that cool-girl look.
    Michelle Rostamian, People.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Yet what this film really nails is the battalion camaraderie that goes beyond spending hours, days, weeks with the same folks and flips into something else entirely once shots are fired.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • In one group of anoles, the researchers daubed the reptiles’ snouts and heads (avoiding the nostrils) with a thin layer of emollient to prevent air bubbles from adhering to the anoles’ heads.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Their victorious players meander over, gathering in front of a chainlink fence draped with handmade banners daubed in the dark green and deep burgundy of Mohun Bagan, India’s great footballing powerhouse.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • His 79th-minute header from Andy Robertson’s free kick beat goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma but cannoned off the upright and across the face of the goal with no Liverpool player able to follow up, and the Premier League leaders ended up losing the last-16 tie in a penalty shootout.
    Andy Jones, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Mousley vividly remembers his first Villa memory, describing the Paul Scholes’ volley that cannoned off the underside of the crossbar and into the net.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Indeed, the no-white rule also applies to cream, ivory, beige, and all of the above, Choi concurs.
    Maria Ward, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The collection itself is 53 pieces with a color story that focuses on blue denim, black, cream, and pops of vermillion, so a true classic American fashion color palette.
    Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Martin and a companion on April 27, 2023, entered the Washington, DC, museum and smeared washable red and black paint on the case protecting Edgar Degas’s 1881 Little Dancer Aged Fourteen in an effort to bring attention to the climate crisis.
    News Desk, Artforum, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Timothy Martin smeared red and black paint on a case shielding a nearly 150-year-old sculpture by Edgar Degas, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Just as often as not, what results from this impulse to lightly fictionalize a recent news story is an overly straightforward telling of the same facts we’ve been barraged with already.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) tried to dismiss the controversy when he was barraged by television camera crews outside his office in the Dirksen Building on Tuesday morning.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In 1260, Vincent of Beauvais gave instructions to travelers to use poultices (a dressing for wounds) made of oil, plants and quicksilver (mercury) to prevent and manage blisters — an all too frequent ailment experienced by pilgrims walking long distances.
    Megan Cassidy-Welch, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Other standout treatments include the Alpine Muscle Relief massage, which helps weary bodies recover after an exerting day, and the Spirit of the Mountains, which incorporates massage and a warm herbal poultice of lemongrass, kaffir lime and sweet basil.
    Linnea Covington, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025

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“Plaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plaster. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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