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impasting

impasting is the present participle and gerund 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 impasting

What is impasting the present participle and gerund of?
Impasting is the present participle and gerund of impaste.

Words near impasting in the dictionary

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

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