Word Finder - dusted

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To remove dust from.

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The cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard.

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To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.

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Dusting always makes me cough.

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Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.

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To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.

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The mother dusted her baby's bum with talcum powder.

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To leave; to rush off.

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To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

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To kill or severely disable.

First she dusted the dining room and polished the silverware.

Together they dusted and vacuumed the downstairs areas.

She rose and dusted off her legs from where she'd knelt.

Alex handed the reins to a caretaker and dusted himself off as he headed for the gate.

Bordeaux picked his hat off the ground and dusted himself off.

A curtain of cloud relents enough to allow the peaks of the Olympic Peninsula, dusted with snow, to creep into the picture.

Roll out half the marzipan on a surface lightly dusted with sieved icing sugar into a round to fit the top of the cake.

You've pulled your cleats out of the back of your closet and dusted off home base, only to realize you're missing one essential baseball playing ingredient-a baseball bat.

It can be dusted around the foundation of the house to deter the pests from coming inside.

Minerals such as zinc, iron oxides, ultramarine, titanium oxide, bismuth oxychloride and mica are all finely ground into a powder that is gently dusted onto the face with a makeup brush.

Each mineral is ground into a feather-light micro powder, that, when dusted onto your face, provides a healthy-looking foundation that actually covers up uneven skin tones and flaws.

It even came in useful for actors who were portraying older characters; often the powder was dusted on the hair to "color" it white.

Dusted on with a voluminous powder or blush brush, this shimmering powder instantly enhances all skin tones and offers a radiant glow that's virtually unmatched by anything else out there.

Follow application with a smudging pencil or eye shadow brush dusted in your favorite shadow.

The plummy hue can be dusted all over the lid or used to define the crease.

Serve immediately dusted with powdered sugar and warm berry sauce (recipe follows).

Traditionally, rosettes are dusted with confectioners sugar, but I like to change things up a bit and mix some cocoa powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, and whatever spices I happen to have on hand together and sprinkle that mixture on the rosettes.

Dipped in white or milk chocolate and dusted with sprinkles or candied pearls, with your name and wedding date imprinted on the fortune, your guests are sure to enjoy this whimsical treat.

Keep hair neat and tidy under a bun cover dusted with rhinestones, or sweep it back with a colorful headband.

That means, keep it clean, keep your plants watered and keep your pictures dusted.

Talcum powder will be dusted over the area to be waxed.

The entire air purifier should also be dusted and cleaned frequently.

Roll flat on a sheet of wax paper, dusted with cornstarch.

A traditional cream puff is not frosted, but rather is dusted lightly with powdered sugar.

As she dusted his parents' picture, she thought about him.

He cleaned the kitchen, dusted the entire downstairs and, as the weather remained mild, even washed the first floor windows, hoping when and if Cynthia saw them it would not be in the sun.

Toby stood and dusted himself off then hauled Ully up by his arm.

Dean dusted off a Christmas present bottle of VO with thoughts of re-igniting the glow from Ethel's gin and chasing away the gloom of the empty house but one sip and he re-capped the jug, deciding it wasn't a good idea.

Darian rose and dusted himself off, thoughts going first to his cats at the cabin and then to the possible guardsmen nearby.

The proboscis, passing down this groove to the spur, becomes dusted with pollen; as it is drawn back, it presses up the lip-like valve of the stigma so that no pollen can enter the stigmatic chamber; but as it enters the next flower it leaves some pollen on the upper surface of the valve, and thus cross-fertilization is effected.

In his experiments upon this subject Fraunhofer employed plates of glass dusted over with lycopodium, or studded with small metallic disks of uniform size; and he found that the diameters of the rings were proportional to the length of the waves and inversely as the diameter of the disks.

The usual ornament is a conventional flower pattern, pricked in from paper and dusted along the pricking.

The grapes are, after gathering, dusted over with plaster of Paris, and then crushed by treading in a shallow rectangular vessel termed the lagar.

For bleeding haemorrhoids tannic acid suppositories are useful, or tannic acid can be dusted on directly.

Upon the surface of the water a little sulphur is dusted.

Moreover, a different behaviour is observed when the surfaces are slightly dusted over.

While Cynthia might have suggested some fillers, her sympathy from yesterday's debate debacle continued to prevail and she just wished him good riding as he dusted off his bicycle for a morning ride.

Ceramic and glass objects can be dusted using a soft sable brush, holding the object with one hand.

Alternatively calcined magnesite may be dusted on pastures for direct grazing and ingestion by the animal at critical times.

I always found baby palmettos tangled in the webs when I dusted periodically.

Stick floats, Avons and crow quills need to be dusted down and even bodied wagglers too.

We do not buy fruit dusted with modified starch.

Maybe she should have worn gloves in case he became suspicious - had the envelope dusted for prints.

In the former he developed a valuable method for the investigation of aerial waves within pipes, based on the fact that a finely divided powder - lycopodium, for example - when dusted over the interior of a tube in which is established a vibrating column of air, tends to collect in heaps at the nodes, the distance between which can thus be ascertained.

It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh;--a mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush--this the light dust-cloth--which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still.

Singer Beyoncé Knowles took a fall during her concert on July 24, 2007, but like a true performer, she dusted herself off and continued with the show.