Dust

Noun

 * 1) fine, dry particles of matter
 * 2) Airborne particles, such as fly ash, cinders and soot

Verb

 * 1)  to remove dust from
 * 2)  to remove dust; to clean by removing dust
 * 3)  Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth
 * 4)  to spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid

Adjectives for Dust
cosmic; yellow; shining; fainting; trifling; impalpable; undisturbed shapeless; dreadful; sodden; titillating; red; desert; thick; blue; gray; heavy blinding; oppressive; choking; stagnant siliceous; shameful; trodden; fine staining; unlovely; lonely; garnered; historical; rolling; scentless; murderous; material; injurious; sleeping; brown-colored; leveled; sunny; sunlit; suffering; kindred burning; dim; scanty; feathery; illumined senseless; slumbering; delicate; sacred; tawny; vile; powdered; invisible; atomic; whirling; torturing; atmospheric; spiraling; hatred; stirred; gritty; smelly; filthy; parched; wayside; pervading; dissipating; mounting; precious; learned; naming; uncontrolled; floating.

Verbs for Dust
beat—; cake with—; carpet with—; clot with—; clothe in—; crumble to—; decompose into—; drag down to—; fall into—; filter—; form into—; go down in—; grovel in—; impregnate with—; issue from—; kick up—; lift from—; mar with—; mix with—; moulder in—; parch with—; reduce to—; remand to—; repose in—; return to—; roll in—; scatter—; scrape off—; scuff through—; shake off—; shower—; smite—; soil with—; spring from—; stamp—; stir up—; trail in—; tread in—; turn to—; write in—; —beclouds; —chokes; — clings to; —creeps in; —gathers; —permeates ; —settles; —shrouds; —thickens.

Adverbs for Dust
furiously; animatedly; industriously; vigorously; listlessly.

Thesaurus
debris, decedent, delouse, depurate, deterge, dirt, dirty, dirty up, dishwater, dispute, dot, down, draff, dredge, dregs, drub, dry bones, dry land, dry-clean, dust ball, dust off, dustup, earth, efflorescence, embalmed corpse, ether, expurgate, fairy, falling-out, fallout, farina, feather, filings, flimflam, flit, flour, flue, fluff, fly, foam, food for worms, fool, fracas, freehold, freshen, froth, fuzz, garbage, gash, glebe, gossamer, grassland, grime, grits, groats, ground, gull, hassle, hasten, hoax, hogwash, hoodwink, hotfoot, husks, hustle, junk, kittens, lambaste, land, landholdings, larrup, late lamented, leavings, lees, lick, lint, lithosphere, litter, lumber, lustrate, marginal land, marl, meal, mire, mold, mortal remains, mote, muck, muck up, mud, muddy, mummification, mummy, offal, offscourings, organic remains, orts, overwhelm, parchment, parings, pepper, potsherds, powder, powdering, purge, purify, pussies, raff, rags, raspings, real estate, real property, reform, refuse, region, regolith, relics, reliquiae, remains, riffraff, row, rubbish, rubble, run, run-in, sawdust, scavenge, scourings, scrap, scrap iron, scraps, scum, shards, shavings, shellac, shoddy, skeleton, slack, slag, slime, slop, slops, smoke, smut, sod, soil, soot, spatter, speck, speckle, speed, splatter, sponge, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, spruce, spume, steam-clean, stick, stiff, straw, stubble, stud, subaerial deposit, subsoil, sweep out, sweepings, sweeten, swill, tares, tenement of clay, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, thistledown, thrash, tidy, topsoil, trash, trick, truck, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, whiten, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up, woodland, acres, air, air pollution, alluvion, alluvium, altercation, arable land, ashes, attritus, bamboozle, barrel, beat, beeline, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmoke, besprinkle, bickering, biscuit, bleach, body, bone, bones, bowdlerize, bran, bread, bubble, cadaver, carcass, carrion, chaff, chicane, chip, clamjamfry, clay, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear out, clobber, clod, cobweb, collateral, cork, corpse, corpus delicti, cosmic dust, cracker, crowbait, crumb, crumble, crust, culm, dead body, dead man, dead person, deadwood.

Etymology
dust: from dust:

Derived terms

 * dust off
 * duster

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: pluhur
 * Amharic: አቧራ
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Ewe:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אָבָק,
 * Hindi: धूल (dhūl)
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: puteklis, putekļi
 * Lithuanian: dulkės
 * Manx: joan
 * Marathi: धूळ (dhūll)
 * Mongolian: тоос (toos)
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, pył
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Rohingya: dúl
 * Romanian:, , colb
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Serbian:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: alikabok
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: దుమ్ము, ధూళి
 * Thai: ธุลี (thúlii)
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: püf
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: שטויב

Related terms

 * angel dust
 * bite the dust
 * catch dust
 * dust ball
 * dustbin, dust bin
 * dust devil
 * dustbowl, dust bowl
 * dust bunny


 * dust filter
 * dustman
 * dustpan
 * duststorm
 * dust trap
 * dust-up


 * dusty
 * fairy dust
 * goofer dust
 * pixie dust
 * smart dust, smartdust
 * stardust

Verb

 * Bulgarian: бърша прах
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (dǎsǎo)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: pyyhkiä pölyt,, tomuttaa
 * French: épousseter


 * German: entstauben
 * Greek: ξεσκονίζω
 * Italian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:, limpiar el polvo


 * Bulgarian: бърша прах
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (chāhuīchén)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,


 * German: entstauben
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:, limpiar el polvo


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (yòngshātǔxǐzǎo)


 * German: ein Sandbad nehmen, sandbaden


 * Bulgarian: поръсвам
 * Finnish:
 * French: pulvériser


 * German:, bestauben
 * Irish: púdráil
 * Russian:

Anagrams

 * stud

Etymology 1
Back-formation of dustet:, from dust: (dust particle)

Noun

 * 1)  dork, moron, tool

Derived terms

 * dustemikkel

Synonyms

 * dustemikkel
 * tomsing
 * tosk
 * tufs
 * støv

Etymology 2
From dust:.

Noun

 * 1) dust (fine, dry particles)

Etymology
from. Akin to dua "smoke",  doest, donst ( duist),  tunst, dunst "blowing wind, storm" ( Dunst),  dust "dust",  ' "dust",  ' "dust",  dyst

Noun

 * 1) dust; powder; mill dust

Descendants

 * English dust

Noun

 * 1) dust particle

Noun

 * 1) dust