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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of plasticise.

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Examples

  • Really cool exhibit, all though, the way they "plasticised" the bodies it's hard to associate them with real human tissue and bone.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2009

  • Really cool exhibit, all though, the way they "plasticised" the bodies it's hard to associate them with real human tissue and bone.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2009

  • He painted flesh as it really is, instead of the tidy, firm, prepubescent, plasticised matter society demands it must be.

    Lucian Freud treasured the pleasures of the flesh | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • I also saw a couple of other great bags in the V&A shop - the one on the left, I adore and would really like to own - it's made of woven plasticised sewing measuring tapes - isn't it fab?

    Blogging and real life katelnorth 2008

  • Paglia complains that Gaga is "like a gangly marionette or plasticised android," when I'd say that's exactly the look she's after.

    Lisa Kirchner: Lady Gaga and the Death of Sex 2010

  • "Gaga isn't sexy at all -- she's like a gangly marionette or plasticised android."

    Lady Gaga isn't sexy, Twitter killed music writing, the black guide to D.C. and more 2010

  • Paglia complains that Gaga is "like a gangly marionette or plasticised android," when I'd say that's exactly the look she's after.

    Lisa Kirchner: Lady Gaga and the Death of Sex 2010

  • Paglia complains that Gaga is "like a gangly marionette or plasticised android," when I'd say that's exactly the look she's after.

    Lisa Kirchner: Lady Gaga and the Death of Sex Lisa Kirchner 2010

  • Fabric background (a piece from my experiment with roller painting - or should I say, roller dyeing), with bits of metallic and plasticised paper sewed down, some metal boullon/springy stuff couched down, a couple of the tags pictured above, some plastic stars (held down with glue dots), the whole thing covered with plastic netting.

    Gotta love a bargain bin katelnorth 2007

  • The tape is for a friend and colleague in medieval crafts, a shoemaker who would like to use something a little less blatantly modern than a plasticised shoemaker's measuring tape.

    Finally finished! a stitch in time 2009

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  • There are adjectival uses in the examples.

    August 20, 2011