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

1. transitive verb. To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
2. transitive verb. To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
3. transitive verb. To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
4. transitive verb. To flatter excessively or glossy.
5. transitive verb. To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
6. intransitive verb. To smear; to play the flatterer.
7. noun. A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.
8. noun. A picture coarsely executed.
9. noun. an unskillful painting
10. noun. a blemish made by dirt

    "he had a smudge on his cheek"

    Synonyms: blot, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot

11. noun. material used to daub walls
12. verb. cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it

    "smear the wall with paint"

    "daub the ceiling with plaster"

    Synonyms: smear

13. verb. apply to a surface

    "daub paint onto the wall"

14. verb. coat with plaster

    "daub the wall"

    Synonyms: plaster

Synonyms

blot, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot, plaster

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in daub:

baud, buda

Common word forms

daubs, daubed, dauber, daubes, daubing

Words from these letters

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