Definitions for plaster

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plaster plas·ter

Spelling: [plas-ter, plah-ster]

IPA: /ˈplæs tər, ˈplɑ stər/

Plaster is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 386 anagrams from letters in plaster (aelprst).

Definitions for plaster

noun

1. a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
2. powdered gypsum.
3. plaster of Paris.
4. a solid or semisolid preparation spread upon cloth, plastic, or other material and applied to the body, especially for some healing purpose.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover (walls, ceilings, etc.) with plaster.
2. to treat with gypsum or plaster of Paris.
3. to lay flat like a layer of plaster.
4. to daub or fill with plaster or something similar.
5. to apply a plaster to (the body, a wound, etc.).
6. to overspread with something, especially thickly or excessively:
7. Informal. to defeat decisively; trounce; drub. to knock down or injure, as by a blow or beating. to inflict serious damage or injury on by heavy bombing, shelling, or other means of attack.

Origin of plaster

before 1000; Middle English, Old English Medieval Latin plastrum plaster (both medical and building senses), aphetic variant of Latin emplastrum Greek émplastron salve, alteration of émplasto

Examples for plaster

But the marble statues they put into a kiln to make lime to plaster their houses.

Her face was cast into a plaster mold, preserving her shy smile for posterity.

plaster and ceramic replicas of organs and appendages rest on the shelves alongside sets of false teeth.

The minute they find out you're Irish, they'll plaster you with praise.

If Enoch had not held his arm he would have torn off the plaster from his breast.

After it has swollen as much as it will, the plaster mould is made as before.

We have a lock of his hair, a few photos, and plaster footprints, along with the tiny blue urn we chose when we had him cremated.

Once dried, a liquid, such as plaster, wax, or bronze, is poured in for a perfect representation of the face.

In that way they have made a plaster cast just the shape of the hole.

As one story goes, Bianca Jagger, impressed, once made a plaster cast of Mara's posterior.