baste

English

Etymology

Cf. Old Norse beysta (“to beat, thresh”) (whence Danish børste (“to beat up”))

Pronunciation

• IPA: /beɪst/
• Rhymes: -eɪst
• Homophone: based

Verb

baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)

1. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
2. (by extension) To coat over something
   • 2001 April 20, Peter Margasak, “Almost Famous”, Chicago Reader:

     Ice Cold Daydream" bastes the bayou funk of the Meters in swirling psychedelia, while "Sweet Thang," a swampy blues cowritten with his dad, sounds like something from Dr. John's "Night Tripper" phase.

3. To sew with wide stitches.
   • 1991 June 14, J.F. Pirro, “Custom Work”, Chicago Reader:

     He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later.

4. (obsolete, slang) To beat.

Translations

To sew with wide stitches

Bulgarian: тропосвам (bg)

French: bâtir (fr)

(obsolete, slang) To beat

Bulgarian: пердаша (bg)

Anagrams

• abets
• bates
• beast, Beast
• beats
• betas
• esbat
• tabes

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Dutch

Verb

baste

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of bassen.

Anagrams

• batse, besta

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Northern Sami

Noun

baste

1. spoon

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Spanish

Verb

baste (infinitive bastar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bastar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bastar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bastar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of bastar.