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SLATHER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spread thickly

Example:

I can't eat bagels without slathering them with cream cheese

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "slather" is one way to...):

spread (cover by spreading something over)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence examples:

They slather the bread with melted butter

They slather butter on the bread

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