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Meanings of plaster over in English

Catalan
emplastrar

Apply a heavy coat to.

emplastrar
Usage of plaster over in English
1
Please stop using Diana as a sticking plaster over your eco-warrior hypocrisy.
The Guardian
2
I shall have to put a bit of flesh-coloured plaster over it.
Adventures in Many Lands
3
Bill was pasting court- plaster over the scratches and bruises on his features.
Whirligigs
4
He had two strips of sticking plaster over his nose.
Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John
5
It's important to empathise and acknowledge their distress, rather than dismiss or plaster over it.
The Irish Times
6
They have been covered up with plaster over the years, but have a tendency to reappear.
BBC
7
David Beckham sports a plaster over his cut eyebrow following the dressing-room bust-up with Alex Ferguson.
The Guardian
8
Her left eye was heavily bloodshot and the sticking plaster over her eyebrow gave her a sinister appearance.
Under orders
9
As directed by Louise Drumm, they plaster over script cracks with their own conviction.Runs until Saturday, February 14th.
The Irish Times
10
Poor human heart, so utterly unconscious of its own deep sickness-sowilling to plaster over the unhealed wound!
Ester Ried
11
And yet, in order to leave behind something of himself, he printed his name on the plaster over the chimney-piece.
Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, par...
12
And at Novoslobodskaya the walls are a mass of cracks, no matter how hard they try to plaster over them.
Metro 2034
13
But even if it had been genuine, the treaty was no better than a sticky plaster over a terminal hemorrhage.
Star trek: terok nor: dawn of the eagles
14
His gravity was in no degree diminished by the presence of a neat strip of flesh-colored court- plaster over his right eye.
The House of a Thousand Candles
15
He was thus enabled to plaster over all the chinks and other ragged openings which the door could not completely cover.
As It Was in the Beginning
16
Has there ever been an instance in which cement was used for a purpose other than to plaster over the Land?
Down with the Cities!
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