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Meaning:
Noun:
- An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
- The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
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Verb:
- intransitive To be reduced to powder; to become like powder.
- intransitive To use powder on the hair or skin; as,
- transitive To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
- transitive To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle
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