Crossword clues for plastered
plastered
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plaster \Plas"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plastered; p. pr. & vb. n. Plastering.] [Cf. OF. plastrer to plaster (in sense 2), F. pl[^a]trer.]
To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore.
To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house.
Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster.
--Bale.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
1 Coated with plaster 2 (context slang English) drunk, intoxicated v
(en-past of: plaster)
WordNet
adj. (of hair) made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance; "black hair plastered with pomade" [syn: slicked]
(of walls) covered with a coat of plaster [syn: sealed]
very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet]
Usage examples of "plastered".
An Adamesque white-and-silver plastered ceiling finished the chilly look in a foliated oval design.
Galen led the way out of the room into the hall where the mosaic floor and plastered walls presented colored temple scenes--priests burning incense at the shrine of Aesculapius, the sick and maimed arriving and the cured departing, giving praise.
His hat had come off and gone spinning away down the afterbay wall, and his pompadour was broken into wet strands plastered across his forehead.
This suite of rooms was actually sealed off from the rest of the palace, the doors to the outside halls not only bolted but plastered over, like the backmost chamber of that strange creature.
The door was plastered with biohazard symbol and warning: CAUTION BIOHAZARD DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT WEARING VENTILATED SUIT The international symbol for biohazard, which is pasted on doors at USAMRIID whenever they open through a major transition of zones, is a red trefoil that reminds me of a red trillium, or toadshade.
The freezers were fitted with padlocks and alarms and were plastered with biohazard flowers and sealed with bands of sticky tape, because it seals cracks.
He had been working for more than an hour, and sweat plastered his linen bracae to him.
He lashed out with the buttstock of his rifle but only succeeded in handing his weapon to the enemy, who plastered him collar to crotch with paint balls.
The two of them ducked behind the plastered wall of a closed-up shop and, squatting down, gasped to catch their breath.
We ran off on the other tack, figuring on getting to windward of her, whereupon she went off on the other tack herself, and we saw she was a schooner with a raking stern and bow and almost no freeboard, so that she seemed plastered to the water.
Their growls were now fearful, their formerly pricked up ears flat to their heads and their stubs of tails plastered to their hindquarters.
Her legs wrapped around his hips, arms around shoulders, mouth plastered his.
She was down to silky pantalets, wet and plastered to her skin, when Jackson came back into the room, carrying a fluffy drying towel.
The circus was set up, the town was plastered with posters and, next day, the citizens of Auxerre gave the Florilegium an even warmer welcome than their streets had done.
The wagon rolled past the greensward of Arlington Park, the limestone-and-brick Fordyce Bathhouse, the plastered Quapaw Bathhouse with its red tile roof and mosaic dome, and the Hot Springs National Park administrative building before turning left on Reserve and stopping at the magnificent five-story towers of the Army and Navy General Hospital.