Dictionary Entry
daub
daub is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
- 2transitive verb
To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
- 3transitive verb
To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
- 4transitive verb
To flatter excessively or glossy.
- 5transitive verb
To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
- 6intransitive verb
To smear; to play the flatterer.
- 7noun
A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.
- 8noun
A picture coarsely executed.
- 9noun
an unskillful painting
- 10noun
a blemish made by dirt
"he had a smudge on his cheek"
- 11noun
material used to daub walls
- 12verb
cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
"smear the wall with paint"
"daub the ceiling with plaster"
Synonyms
- 13verb
apply to a surface
"daub paint onto the wall"
- 14verb
coat with plaster
"daub the wall"
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