verb
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To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.
example
to pounce paper, or a pattern
verb
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To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something.
example
She pounced on the young man, because she loved him and wanted him for herself.
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To attack suddenly by leaping.
example
I was awakened from a dead sleep by my child pouncing on top of me from out of nowhere.
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To eagerly seize an opportunity.
example
I pounced on the chance to get promoted.
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To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
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To stamp holes in; to perforate.
adjective
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Furnished with claws or talons.
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Ornamented with perforations or dots.
Examples of pounced in a Sentence
He pounced, tearing at the jumper.
He pounced on her again, pinning her to the floor.
His penetrating gaze prowled over her face and pounced on her eyes.
He tried to run, but she pounced and clamped onto his neck with her huge fangs.
The moment she paused, he pounced, reminding her of just how fast he was.
Talon stumbled, and Dusty froze rather than pounced, his head whipping around.
Unable to contain her curiosity any longer, she pounced on Carmen before she could get out of the kitchen.
At her words, his gaze ripped from her breasts and pounced on her face.
Failing through his police to lure the comte d'Artois to land in Normandy, Napoleon pounced on a scion of the House of Bourbon who was within his reach.
Of all the things to think about, she couldn't get the prisoner out of her thoughts, even when Evelyn returned with sweet bread she normally would've pounced on.
The officer pounced on the soldiers who were in the shops, but at that moment fearful screams reached them from the huge crowd on the Moskva bridge and the officer ran out into the square.
Even the most tenuous link to 1966 is pounced upon by smug commentators from every angle.
The experienced Green pounced on a defensive mix-up to fire home into an open goal.
Alan Dwyer and Ed Moore immediately pounced and shuffled Connor down to fourth.
Mary Hendrikhovna assented and began looking for the spoon which someone meanwhile had pounced on.
A large Lycan then pounced on the hood of Crystal's car.
Rich Payne pounced on Alex Mugan's drilled cross, only to see his goalbound shot ricochet off a defender.
Rich Payne pounced on Alex Mugan 's drilled cross, only to see his goalbound shot ricochet off a defender.
The next thing she new she was being pounced on by a snow leopard.
Happy the demon could draw his lunch out of the forest, Rhyn pounced on the demon, cracking its neck before it could fight.
A young man, looking distraught, pounced down on the ladies, asking them to move aside.