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WALLPAPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A decorative paper for the walls of rooms
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wallpaper" is a kind of...):
paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)
Derivation:
wallpaper (cover with wallpaper)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they wallpaper ... he / she / it wallpapers
Past simple: wallpapered
Past participle: wallpapered
-ing form: wallpapering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cover with wallpaper
Synonyms:
paper; wallpaper
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "wallpaper" is one way to...):
cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
wallpaper (a decorative paper for the walls of rooms)
wallpaperer (a worker who papers walls)
