Another word for dust
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Verb
To scatter or release in drops or small particles
- To put powder on:
- To turn into or produce as a powder:
- To sprinkle or cover with or as with powder
- To sprinkle over (with something)
- (Archaic) to sprinkle with
- To sprinkle.
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Another word for dust
Noun
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- Plural form of filing
- The texture or fineness of sand or stone used in grinding.
- Rough, hard particles of sand, stone, etc.
- Minute rough granules, as of sand or stone.
- The fine black particles, chiefly composed of carbon, produced by incomplete combustion of coal, oil, wood, or other fuels.
- An English surname, probably derived from Old Norse grimr or grimmr
- Black dirt or soot, especially such dirt clinging to or ingrained in a surface.
- Dirt, esp. sooty dirt, rubbed into or covering a surface, as of the skin
- A dead person; human remains
- Plural form of ash
- The unburned particles and white or grayish powder remaining after a thing has been burned
- Plural form of granule
- Plural form of flake
- Plural form of particle
- Loose, gritty particles of eroded or weathered rock, varying in size from about116 mm to 2 mm in diameter, usually deposited along the shores of bodies of water, in riverbeds, or in deserts
- The loose, granular, gritty particles in an hourglass.
- A tract of land covered with sand, as a beach or desert.
- The top layer of the earth's surface in which plants can grow, consisting of rock and mineral particles mixed with decayed organic matter and having the capability of retaining water.
- Country; land:
- A particular kind of earth or ground:
- Bits of thread, ravelings, or fluff from cloth or yarn, specif., such fluff caught by a removable screen in a clothes dryer
- Downy material obtained by scraping linen cloth and used for dressing wounds.
- The mass of soft fibers surrounding the seeds of unginned cotton.
- A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.
- (Mining) The gravel, soil, etc. from which gold is separated by washing or panning
- Earth or soil.
Verb
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- To put powder on:
- To turn into or produce as a powder:
- To sprinkle or cover with or as with powder
- To pass through a sieve:
- To pass through a sieve so as to separate the coarse from the fine particles, or to break up lumps, as of flour
- To apply by scattering through a sieve:
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Idioms:
bite-the-dust
lick the dust
make the dust fly
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