daub
verb/dɔːb/
/dɔːb/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they daub | /dɔːb/ /dɔːb/ |
| he / she / it daubs | /dɔːbz/ /dɔːbz/ |
| past simple daubed | /dɔːbd/ /dɔːbd/ |
| past participle daubed | /dɔːbd/ /dɔːbd/ |
| -ing form daubing | /ˈdɔːbɪŋ/ /ˈdɔːbɪŋ/ |
- to spread a substance such as paint, mud, etc. thickly and/or carelessly onto something
- daub A with B The walls of the building were daubed with red paint.
- All the windows are smashed and the walls are daubed with graffiti.
- daub B on A They used spray paint to daub slogans on the walls.
- daub something + adv./prep. The letters ‘USA’ were daubed across their faces.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDaub is used with these nouns as the object:- graffiti
- slogan
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French dauber, from Latin dealbare ‘whiten, whitewash’, based on albus ‘white’.Definitions on the go
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