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impastes

impastes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of impaste.

Meaning of impaste

Verb

impaste (third-person singular simple present impastes, present participle impasting, simple past and past participle impasted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.
    • With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,
      Baked and impasted with the parching streetsc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
  2. To lay colours thickly on canvas by the impasto technique.

Questions about impastes

What is impastes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Impastes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of impaste.

Words near impastes in the dictionary

  1. impastation
  2. impastations
  3. Impastato
  4. impaste
  5. impasted
  6. impastes
  7. impasting
  8. impasto
  9. impastoed
  10. impastoes
  11. impastoing

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