daub
verb (used with object)
to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud.
is daubing
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present progressiveof daub (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Gratian says, that the Council means by a concubine a wife married 'sine dote et solennitate'; but this is daubing with untempered mortar.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson
