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Adjective: pasted  pey-stid
  1. Affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste
    "pieces of pasted paper";
    - glued
Verb: paste  peyst
  1. Join or attach with or as if with glue
    "cut and paste the sentence in the text"; "paste the sign on the wall";
    - glue
     
  2. Cover the surface of
    "paste the wall with burlap"
     
  3. [informal] Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
    - cream [informal], bat, clobber [informal], drub, thrash [informal], lick [informal], marmalise [Brit, informal], marmelize [Brit, informal], marmelise [Brit, informal], wipe the floor [informal], beat hollow [informal], whale [N. Amer, informal], marmalize [Brit, informal], smoke [N. Amer, informal], hammer [informal], muller [Brit, informal], blow away [informal], slaughter [informal], tromp [N. Amer, informal], trounce
     
  4. (computing) insert text or other object into a document (e.g. from the clipboard)
     
  5. Hit with the fists
    "He pasted his opponent"

See also: affixed

Type of: attach, beat, beat out, cover, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish

Encyclopedia: Pasted

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