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Daub

To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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Verb group 4

Plaster 84% connected

An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adh…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Plaster 84% connected

An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adh…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Smear 84% connected

To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Smear 84% connected

To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 10

Apply 76% connected

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Blemish 76% connected

To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Clay 76% connected

A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down an…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Coat 76% connected

An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Defect 76% connected

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mar 76% connected

A small lake. See Mere.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Painting 76% connected

of Paint

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Picture 76% connected

The art of painting; representation by painting.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Surface 76% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 5

Blood 76% connected

The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste produc…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mortar 76% connected

A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mud 76% connected

Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Parget 76% connected

To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Roughcast 76% connected

To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Narrower term 2

Blotch 76% connected

A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Splotch 76% connected

A spot; a stain; a daub.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 12

Blur 74% connected

To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manu…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Blur 74% connected

To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manu…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dauber 74% connected

One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dauber 74% connected

One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Plaster 74% connected

An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adh…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Plaster 74% connected

An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adh…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Plasterer 74% connected

One who applies plaster or mortar.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Plasterer 74% connected

One who applies plaster or mortar.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Smear 74% connected

To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Smear 74% connected

To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Synonym 7

Blot 92% connected

To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Plaster 92% connected

An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adh…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Slur 92% connected

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Smear 92% connected

To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Smirch 92% connected

To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Smudge 92% connected

A suffocating smoke.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Spot 92% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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