Repaste

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To apply or spread paste or adhesive again on a surface ; to reattach something by means of glue or a sticky substance ; to redo a task involving pasting material back in place
2. The act of reapplying glue or a similar substance to bond materials anew ; the process of fixing or covering a surface once more with paste ; performing the action of sticking something again after it was previously detached
3. To smear or coat again with a pasty substance for adhesion purposes ; to restore something by reapplying an adhesive medium ; engaging in the repetition of a pasting procedure to secure objects or surfaces

Etymology: "Repaste" is about as plain as English compounds get: the prefix "re-", meaning again, attached to "paste", so the word simply means to paste again, which in practice means to glue something back together. The base "paste" has a longer road behind it. It traces back to the Ancient Greek "pastá", a term for a savoury mixture or a barley-based dish, which later passed through Late Latin "pasta" and Old French "paste" into Middle English as "paste", meaning dough or a moist mixture. The sense of "paste" as an adhesive came along later, from the idea of a thick, sticky mass of flour or similar material used to hold things together. That is why a verb meaning to fix with glue can grow out of a word once tied to food and dough.

Synonyms: reapply, reinsert, repost, replace