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Word entry · 6 letters

powder

Best crossword clue

"Dry fine substance"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈpaʊ.də(ɹ)/Part of speech verb, nounSorted deoprwStarts with PEnds with R2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Dry substance made of very fine particles.

Word origin

From Middle English poudre, pouder, pouldre, borrowed from Old French poudre, poldre, puldre, from Latin pulverem, accusative singular of Latin pulvis (“dust, powder”). Doublet of pulver. Compare pollen (“fine flour”), polverine, pulverize.

Used in a sentence

  • Let me goe grin'd their Bones to powder ſmall, […]
  • Let them stop fretting about vegetables denied by the weather and eat chilli powder. Just explain to them that they really shouldn’t think about spiralising it, because that doesn’t work.
  • 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.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Dry fine substance6 letters
02Fine dry substance6 letters

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