OXFORD DICTIONARY
pave, v.tr.
1 a cover (a street, floor, etc.) with paving etc. b cover or strew (a floor etc.) with anything (paved with flowers).
2 prepare (paved the way for her arrival).
paving-stone a large flat usu. rectangular piece of stone etc. for paving.
paver n. paving n. pavior n. (also paviour).
ME f. OF paver, back-form. (as PAVEMENT)
THESAURUS
pave
asphalt, blacktop, carpet, causeway, cement, cobblestone, concrete, cover, ease, facilitate, flag, floor, metal, pebble, surface, tar, tarmac, tile
ROGET THESAURUS
pave
Covering
VB
cover, superpose, superimpose, overlay, overspread, wrap, encase, incase, face, case, veneer,
pave, paper, tip, cap, bind, bulkhead, bulkhead in, clapboard, coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar, wash, besmear, bedaub, anoint, do over, gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash, parget, lay it on thick, overlie, overarch, endome, conceal, anodize, galvanize.