plaster🔊

A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.

(Canada) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.

A 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; render, stucco.

A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.

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To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.

To apply a plaster to.

To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.

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

(figurative) To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).

(figurative) To smooth over.