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To cover or smear with a soft adhesive substance such as plaster, grease, or mud.
(verb-transitive)
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To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.
(verb-transitive)
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To apply with quick or crude strokes: daubed glue on the paper.
(verb-transitive)
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To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.
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To make crude or amateurish paintings.
(verb-intransitive)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.