Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To coat with tar.

    teeren

    ма́зать дёгтемmázatʹ djógtem

    coat with tar

  2. (transitive)To besmirch.

    The allegations tarred his name, even though he was found innocent.

  3. (transitive)To create a tar archive.

Examples

18 sentences

  1. The road was paved with tar.

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  2. The road was paved in tar.

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  3. The tar softened from the heat.

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  4. He takes a bucket of tar.

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  5. I hate these moments like tar.

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Translations

6 languages
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Origin

Abbreviation of tape archive.

Abbreviation of tape archive.

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Forms

tars, tarring, tarred, tarred
Base formtar · to tar
3rd person singulartars
Present participletarring
Past simpletarred
Past participletarred

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytar
he, she, ittars

Past simpleLesson

all personstarred

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tarred
he, she, ithas tarred

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tar

Antonyms

1 antonyms
untar

Word family

4 related words
Derivedretartar outuntarreduntar

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tapestrytapingtapiocatapirtaratarantulatardigrade

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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