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daubing

/dawb/US // dɔb //UK // (dɔːb) //

涂抹,涂抹法,涂抹式,涂抹式的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud: to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud.
    • : to spread on or over something: to daub plaster on a brick wall.
    • : to smear, soil, or defile.
    • : to apply, as paint or colors, unskillfully.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to daub something.
    • : to paint unskillfully.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : material, especially of an inferior kind, for daubing walls.
    • : something daubed on.
    • : an act of daubing.
    • : a crude, inartistic painting.

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Examples

  • Five field-seconds perfected by fog, duffel snuggled against melike a child, the wash of creamy daubs against green,then gone.

  • His parents daub it with anti-bacterial cream, hoping to prevent infection.

  • That she is, but Daub took the phone call to Hill at face value.

  • After law school, she joined Daub full-time, working as his legislative assistant on issues like health care and Social Security.

  • Very little of the earlier buildings remained, as they all appear to have been built of wood and wattle-and-daub.

  • As for "wattle and daub" I could wish that it had never been invented.

  • A painter was made to paint a ring of blood around the neck and daub the clothes with red.

  • There are good prints provided cheap, to hang in the place of the ancient sampler or daub.

  • They daub one of these portions all over with charcoal, until it be perfectly black.