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What is the verb for paste?

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paste
  1. (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
  2. (computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video, movie container etc.) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
  3. (transitive, informal) To strike or beat someone or something.
  4. (transitive, informal) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Write each patron's name clearly on a label, then paste the label on the bottle.”
      “An under-15s team from Mount Barker, who had the temerity to paste their opponents by 73 points, received the same sanction.”
      “His subsequent explanations of the situation cause Mr. Fraser to slug him in the midriff and paste him in the eye.”
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pasted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of paste
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She pasted on a smile, though, as John Taylor gave her a light hug and kissed her cheek.”
      “On the principle of waste not, want not, I've pasted some material below that was originally intended for New York Press.”
      “On to this Stoker pasted some new-fangled psychiatric theory, derived from the French alienist Charcot, one of Freud's main precursors.”
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