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plas·tered

 (plăs′tərd)
adj. Slang
Intoxicated; drunk.
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plastered

(ˈplɑːstəd)
adj
slang intoxicated; drunk
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

drunk

(drʌŋk)

adj.
1. being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated.
2. overcome or dominated by a strong feeling or emotion: drunk with passion.
3. pertaining to or caused by intoxication.
n.
4.
a. an intoxicated person.
5. a period of drinking alcohol heavily: a week-long drunk.
v.
6. pp. and nonstandard pt. of drink.
usage: Both drunk and drunken are used as modifiers before nouns naming persons: a drunk customer; a drunken merrymaker. Only drunk occurs after a linking verb: The actor was drunk with success. drunken is almost always the form used with nouns that do not name persons: drunken arrogance; a drunken brawl. See also drink.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.plastered - (of hair) made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance; "black hair plastered with pomade"
groomed - neat and smart in appearance; well cared for; "the manager was a beautifully groomed young man"; "his horse was always groomed"
2.plastered - (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster
covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"
3.plastered - very drunkplastered - very drunk        
jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
drunk, inebriated, intoxicated - stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated"
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plastered

adjective
Slang. Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor:
Informal: cockeyed, stewed.
Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in the wind.
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Translations
سَكْران
ožralý
fuld
blau
πιωμένος
borrachomamado
kännissä
bourréschlass
pijan
sbronzo
酔っぱらって
술취한
dronken
pære full
spity
bêbado
пьяный
full
เมามาก เป็นคำสแลง
dut gibi sarhoş
say rượu
醉的

plastered

[ˈplɑːstəd] ADJ (= drunk) to be plasteredestar como una cuba, estar tomado (LAm)
to get plasteredponerse como una cuba
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

plastered

[ˈplɑːstərd] adj (= drunk) → soûl(e)
to get plastered → se soûler
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

plastered

adj pred (inf)voll (inf); to get plasteredsich volllaufen lassen (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

plastered

[ˈplɑːstəd] adj (fam) (drunk) → ubriaco/a fradicio/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

plastered

سَكْران ožralý fuld blau πιωμένος borracho, mamado kännissä bourré pijan sbronzo 酔っぱらって 술취한 dronken pære full spity bêbado пьяный full เมามาก เป็นคำสแลง dut gibi sarhoş say rượu 醉的
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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When I began to have a fire at evening, before I plastered my house, the chimney carried smoke particularly well, because of the numerous chinks between the boards.
Its walls were loosely constructed, and had lately been plastered throughout with a rough plaster, which the dampness of the atmosphere had prevented from hardening.
I was then curious, indeed, to see it; and when I came to it, it was nothing but this: it was a timber house, or a house built, as we call it in England, with lath and plaster, but all this plastering was really China ware--that is to say, it was plastered with the earth that makes China ware.
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