Powder

Noun

 * 1) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
 * 2) * William Shakespeare:
 * Grind their bones to powder small.
 * 1) An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
 * 2)  Light, dry, fluffy snow.

Derived terms

 * Atlas powder
 * baking powder
 * Bolivian marching powder
 * powder blue
 * powder down
 * powder-down feather


 * powder-down patch
 * powder hose
 * powder hoy
 * powder magazine
 * powder mine
 * powder monkey


 * powder post
 * powder puff
 * powder room
 * take a powder

Verb

 * 1)  To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
 * 2)  To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle
 * to powder the hair.
 * 1) * John Milton:
 * A circling zone thou seest / Powdered with stars.
 * 1)  To be reduced to powder; to become like powder.
 * Some salts powder easily.
 * 1)  To use powder on the hair or skin; as,
 * She paints and powders.

Adjectives for Powder
(general)

smokeless; bronze; ordered; resultant; odorless; moistened; deadly; notorious; fetid; capsulated; dictatorial; heavy; inferior; murderous.

Verbs for Powder
apply—; dab in—; dip in—; dust with—; prink with—; reduce to—; smear—; spread —; touch up with—; —beautifies; —conceals; —embellishes; —glorifies; —harmon¬izes; —improves; —mellows; —perfects; — pretties; —primes; —soothes; —tricks; — whitens.

Adverbs for Powder
fashionably; flirtatiously; glamorously; exaggeratedly; fascinatingly;  bewitchingly; enchantingly.

Thesaurus
Ballistite, TNT, abrade, abscond, absquatulate, air pollution, atomize, attritus, balm, balsam, base, beat, besprinkle, bran, bray, bread, break up, brecciate, buck, cellulose nitrate, clown white, coat, cold cream, come to dust, comminute, compact, contriturate, cordite, cosmetics, cosmic dust, cover, crumb, crumble, crumble into dust, crumble to dust, crush, decamp, disappear, disintegrate, dog it, dot, dredge, drops, drug, drugstore complexion, dust, dust ball, dynamite, effloresce, efflorescence, electuary, elixir, escape, ethical drug, explosive, eye shadow, eyebrow pencil, fall to dust, fall to pieces, fallout, farina, filings, flour, foundation, foundation cream, fragment, generic name, grain, granulate, granulize, grate, greasepaint, grind, grind to powder, grits, groats, gunpowder, hand cream, hand lotion, herbs, high explosive, inhalant, kittens, lam, levigate, lincture, linctus, lint, lip rouge, lipstick, make off, makeup, mascara, mash, materia medica, meal, medicament, medication, medicinal, medicinal herbs, medicine, melinite, mill, mixture, mudpack, nail polish, nitrocotton, nitroglycerin, nonprescription drug, officinal, paint, patent medicine, pepper, pestle, pharmacon, physic, plastic explosive, pound, powder puff, preparation, prescription drug, proprietary, proprietary medicine, proprietary name, puff, pulverize, pussies, raspings, reduce to powder, rouge, run away, sawdust, scrunch, shard, shred, simples, skedaddle, skip, skip out, smash, smokeless powder, smut, soot, spatter, speck, speckle, splatter, split, spot, sprinkle, squash, stud, syrup, take a powder, take off, talc, talcum, talcum powder, theraputant, tisane, trinitrotoluol, triturate, vanish, vanishing cream, vanity case, vegetable remedies, villanous saltpetre, war paint

Etymology
From poudre:, pouldre:,  poudre:, poldre:, puldre:,  pulvis:. compare pollen fine flour, mill dust, E. pollen. Compare polverine, pulverize.

Noun

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 * Chinese: 粉 (fěn)
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 * Japanese: 粉 (こな, kona)
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian: milteliai
 * Norwegian: pudder,
 * Polish:
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 * Romanian: pudră
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 * Telugu: పొడి (poDi), చూర్ణము (choorNamu)
 * Turkish: pudra


 * Armenian:
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 * Polish:
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 * Telugu: పేలుడు మందు (paeluDu maMdu)

Verb

 * Dutch: fijnmalen,
 * Finnish: jauhaa hienoksi


 * Norwegian: pulverisere,
 * Spanish: reducir a polvo, pulverizar, triturar


 * Dutch: bepoederen
 * Finnish:
 * Irish: púdráil


 * Norwegian:
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 * Spanish: pulverizarse, hacerse polvo


 * Telugu: పొడి చేయు (poDi caeyu)


 * Finnish:
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 * Spanish: ponerse polvos, empolvarse