plaster

1. 1.

   apply a heavy coat to

   Synonymsplaster overstick on

   Broadercover
2. 2.

   cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on

   “The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters”

   “She let the walls of the apartment be beplastered with stucco”

   Synonymsbeplaster

   Broadercover
3. 3.

   affix conspicuously

   “She plastered warnings all over the wall”

   Broaderaffix
4. 4.

   apply a plaster cast to

   “plaster the broken arm”

   Broadercover
5. 5.

   coat with plaster

   “daub the wall”

   Synonymsdaub

   Broadercoat

   Narrowerrender-setpargetroughcastmudmortar

   masonry

6. 6.

   dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

   Synonymspoultice

   Broaderdress

   medicine

1. 1.

   a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings

   Broadermixturecovering material

   Narrowerfinish coatgroutpargetroughcastspacklestucco
2. 2.

   any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs

   Synonymsplaster of Paris

   Broadercalcium sulphate

   Narrowergesso
3. 3.

   a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.

   Synonymspoulticecataplasm

   Broaderdressing

   Narrowermustard plaster
4. 4.

   a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)

   “there were cracks in the plaster”

   Synonymsplasterwork

   Broadersurface

   Narrowerpargeting
5. 5.

   adhesive tape used in dressing wounds

   Synonymsadhesive plastersticking plaster

   Broaderadhesive tape

   Narrowercourt plaster

Other forms of plaster

plural

plasters·

past tense

plasterred·

present participle

plasterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plaster

What does plaster mean?

plaster means "apply a heavy coat to". That is the primary sense; the word has 11 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plaster?

plaster has 2 syllables: plas-ter. The stress falls on "plas". In IPA it is /ˈplæstɚ/.

What is another word for plaster?

Close synonyms include plaster over, stick on, beplaster, daub, poultice. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plaster a common word?

plaster is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.