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untar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bribe noun Money or a favor given to someone to influence their decision dishonestly.
  • daub noun Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
  • rub verb To move something back and forth against a surface while pressing on it.
  • smear verb To spread a soft or sticky substance across a surface, often messily.
  • spread verb To open something out so it covers a wider area.

Senses

untar is used for these senses in English:

  • daub (intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
  • grease someone's palm (idiomatic) To bribe a person.
  • rub (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
  • rub To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
  • smear (transitive) To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
  • spread (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer. [from 16th c.]

bribe — full definition

  1. noun Money or a favor given to someone to influence their decision dishonestly.
  2. verb To offer someone money or a favor to influence them dishonestly.

daub — full definition

  1. noun Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
  2. noun A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
  3. noun A crude or amateurish painting.

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