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pasting

USPAY-sting/ˈpeɪstɪŋ/PAYS-ting/ˈpeɪstɪŋ/

Noun pluralpastings (some meanings)

3 meanings of pasting

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  1. 1
    verb
    Present participle and gerund of paste. Use it after is, are, or was, or to name the action itself.

    The kids are pasting pictures into their scrapbooks.

    I'm pasting the address into the email right now.

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  2. 2
    noununcountable
    The act of putting paste on something, or of sticking something on with paste.

    The pasting of the wallpaper took us all afternoon.

    Neat pasting keeps the corners of the poster from curling up.

    Similargluing

  3. 3
    nounslangcountable
    A time when a person or team loses, or when someone gets beaten in a fight.

    Our team took a real pasting in the last game of the season.

    He got a pasting in the boxing ring last night.

    Similarbeating, thrashing, hammering, drubbing, trouncing

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pasting is a form of paste

paste, verb: To put text, pictures or other things you copied or cut before into a new place. Full entry

Forms
pastepastes he/she/itpasting -ing formpasted past tense, past participle
Spelling
paste → pasting: drop the e, add -ing

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