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• fine, dry powder consisting of tiny particles of earth or waste matter lying on the ground or on surfaces or carried in the air.

• "the car sent up clouds of dust"

Similar: fine powder, fine particles, dirt, grime, filth, smut, soot,

• an act of dusting.

• "a quick dust, to get rid of the cobwebs"

• remove the dust or dirt from the surface of (something) by wiping or brushing it.

• "I broke the vase I had been dusting"

Similar: wipe, clean, buff, brush, sweep, mop,

• cover lightly with a powdered substance.

• "roll out on a surface dusted with icing sugar"

Similar: sprinkle, scatter, powder, dredge, sift, spray, cover, spread, strew, dot, fleck, freckle, dab, befleck, bestrew, besprinkle,

• beat up or kill someone.

• "the officers dusted him up a little bit"

Origin: Old English dūst, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch duist ‘chaff’.

• (of a project) be completely finished or ready.

• used to convey a feeling of great disappointment or disillusion about something.
"the party would be dust and ashes if he couldn't come"

• things quieten down.
"she hoped that the dust would settle quickly and the episode be forgotten"

• fall far behind someone in a competitive situation.

• remain unused.
"some professors let their computers gather dust"

• surpass someone or something easily.
"today's modems leave their predecessors in the dust"

• find that a person has made a hasty departure.

• create a disturbance.