papering
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- noun
- /ˈpeɪpərɪŋ/
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empapelado
- Sometimes I do, too, but I'm doing my best to keep this case civil on his end, and toilet papering isn't gonna help.
Examples
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Printing, papering over, borrowing, kicking the can.
Blog text (13) -
But what a misery that always was, she said, helping him with the papering!
Fiction book (1994) -
Keeping the group together long enough to produce a final report often means papering over important disagreements and employing impressive language that means relatively little.
Academic text (1995) -
The papering, unfortunately, did little to muffle the sound of the milliner and his wife copulating one story below.
Fiction book (1992) -
Hence, paper would more accurately be called papering—to emphasize that it is always and inevitably a dynamic process undergoing perpetual change.
Academic text (1993) -
And spewing down the wall like a yellow papering waterfall... is this 1964 original teletype printout... of Lyndon Johnson's acceptance speech for the Democratic National Convention.
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She carefully finished the papering of the living room, selecting a beautiful floral design.
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After a long weekend, they completed the papering of the hallway to match the rest of the house.
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The home improvement show featured tips on papering walls efficiently for a stunning look.
Synonyms
Applying wallpaper to walls to cover and decorate them
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Papering starts with paper, the familiar material whose name comes from the old plant papyrus, and the ending -ing turns the word into an action. So papering is the act of putting paper on walls to 'decorate' or 'cover' them.