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# daub

«daub» in Mova's school dictionary: **to smear something thick and sticky, such as paint, mud…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (daub, daubs, daubed, daubing); noun (a daub)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To daub is to smear something thick and sticky, such as paint, mud or clay, over a surface, often roughly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#m1)

2) A daub is a rough, messy smear of paint or clay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, something is smeared roughly with blood, mud or clay; in art a «daub» is a painting done carelessly

### examples

- The children daubed paint all over the paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#x1)
- The walls were daubed with mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#x2)
- The cradle was overturned and daubed with blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#x3)
- Her picture was just a brown daub. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#x4)
- Mix the clay and daub it on the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «daub» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.