Word.ws English Dictionary

pasted

pasted is the simple past and past participle of paste.

Meaning of paste

Verb (1)

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

  1. (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
  2. (transitive) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.

Verb (2)

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

  1. (slang, transitive) To strike or beat someone or something.
    • He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 23
  2. (slang, transitive) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

See all 12 meanings of paste

Phrases with pasted

Questions about pasted

What is pasted the simple past and past participle of?
Pasted is the simple past and past participle of paste.

Words near pasted in the dictionary

  1. pastebin
  2. pastebins
  3. pasteboard
  4. pasteboards
  5. pasteboardy
  6. pasted
  7. pasted up
  8. pastedown
  9. pastedowns
  10. pastegh
  11. pasteghs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pasted (page history and authors); paste (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: “pasted.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pasted. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.