Word.ws English Dictionary

paste away at

paste away at verb: to beat (someone) over a long time; to continue struggling with a task.

Verb

paste away at (third-person singular simple present pastes away at, present participle pasting away at, simple past and past participle pasted away at)

  1. (slang) To beat (someone) over a long time; to continue struggling with a task.

Forms of paste away at

third-person singular presentpastes away at
present participlepasting away at
past participlepasted away at
pastpasted away at

Questions about paste away at

What does paste away at mean?
Paste away at means to beat (someone) over a long time; to continue struggling with a task.
What part of speech is paste away at?
Paste away at is a verb.
What is the past tense of paste away at?
The past tense of paste away at is pasted away at.

Words near paste away at in the dictionary

  1. pastance
  2. pastances
  3. pastas
  4. Pastaza
  5. paste
  6. paste away at
  7. paste bomb
  8. paste bombs
  9. paste egg
  10. paste eggs
  11. paste soap

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: paste away at (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “paste away at.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/paste_away_at. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.