Powder

Quick meaning: Powder is a noun meaning The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.

Meaning

The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.

More Meanings

1. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
2. (informal) Ellipsis of powder snow; light, dry, fluffy snow.
3. Ellipsis of powder blue, a color.
4. (transitive) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
5. (transitive) To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder.
6. (intransitive) To use powder on the hair or skin.
7. (cosmetics) A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.

Example Sentences

to powder one's hair

A circling zone thou seest / Powdered with stars.

Let me goe grin'd their Bones to powder ſmall, […]

She was redolent of violet sachet powder, and had warm, soft, white hands, but she danced divinely, moving as smoothly as the tide coming in.

Word Forms

• powders
• powdre
• powdering
• powdered

Synonyms for powder

Depending on context, synonyms include pound, grind, comminute, pulverize, triturate, gunpowder.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pulverize, powderize, gunpowder, ash, dried, wildfire.

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