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paste

/peɪst/ verb C2
  1. To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste. (transitive)
  2. To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else. (transitive)

He/she/it pastes · Past pasted · Past participle pasted · -ing form pasting

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Verb forms

Base form
paste
He/she/it
pastes
Past
pasted
Past participle
pasted
-ing form
pasting

From the library

Someone, then, cut out the message with a pair of short-bladed scissors, pasted it with paste—”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 38 · C1
This paste in the tin is no doubt the luminous mixture with which the creature was daubed.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 201 · C1

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