paste
/peɪst/ verb C2- To strike or beat someone or something.
- To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
He/she/it pastes · Past pasted · Past participle pasted · -ing form pasting
Verb forms
- Base form
- paste
- He/she/it
- pastes
- Past
- pasted
- Past participle
- pasted
- -ing form
- pasting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
With pictures pasted on the wall
One winter’s night, as we sat together by the fire, I ventured to suggest to him that, as he had finished pasting extracts into his common-place book, he might employ the next two hours in making our room a little more habitable.
Across the middle of it a single sentence had been formed by the expedient of pasting printed words upon it.
Someone, then, cut out the message with a pair of short-bladed scissors, pasted it with paste—”
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