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6 3.4
To put decorative paper on room walls
  • verb
  • /ˈwɔːlˌpeɪpər/
translation icon : empapelar
  • The bathroom should have been wallpapered and updated by now; the nail holes in her walls needed to be spackled, and the rest of the apartment could use some touch-up painting as well.
  • wallpapered room
  • wallpapered the bedroom
  • wallpapering the bathroom

Examples

  • After repainting, we will wallpaper the hallway with bright colors.

  • Weren't you guys supposed to start wallpapering today?

    Air Bud (1997)

  • So one other idea could be to wallpaper the wall.

  • If it was up to me, you could wallpaper the whole place with them... but the owner makes the rules.

    Friday the 13th (2009)

  • We could paint and wallpaper for Mom.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • "I'm going to wallpaper the garage."

    Identity Thief (2013)

  • A guy wanted to wallpaper his bathroom…

    The Bad News Bears (1976)

  • More or less on impulse, she wallpapered the bedroom in her condo and started researching trips she could take.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • She decided to wallpaper the living room with a floral design.

  • It's easy to wallpaper a small room if you plan ahead.

Synonyms

to paper
vsto wallpaper
20 3.9

To cover a wall or surface with thin decorative sheets

is limited to covering room walls with decorative sheets

Phrasal Verbs

to wallpaper the living room
3.5

To cover the living room walls with decorative paper

Compounds

butt-ugly wallpaper
  • Offensive
9.3

A wall covering that looks very ugly

moving wallpaper
6.7

A decorative wall covering that shows moving pictures

mural wallpaper
4.4

A large printed paper that covers one wall to make the room's main focus

photo wallpaper
4.1

A large photo printed on paper and put on a wall to decorate

How Animated

to wallpaper
6 3.4

Surface Forms

wallpaper infinitive
wallpapered past
wallpapered past participle
wallpapering present participle
wallpapers third person singular

Morphology

wallpaper = wallpaper (transparent) = wall + paper

The verb is transparently based on the noun 'wallpaper', meaning to apply wallpaper to walls.

Etymology

Wallpaper as a verb comes from the simple words wall and paper and means to 'cover' a wall with decorative paper. So when you wallpaper a room you are putting paper on its walls.