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Synonyms for powder

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

pulverize triturate comminute powderise levigate US

All synonyms

Verb

1. Pulverize — to reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder

pulverize, pulverise UK, grind, pound, triturate, comminute, powderise

Other

dash, levigate US, laevigate UK

Noun

gun powder, dust, cocaine, efflorescence, pulverization, pulverisation UK, booger sugar slang, rouge dated

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.

  2. n. 1

    The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.

Related words

Phrases
powder room powder blue powder magazine bleaching powder milk powder powder snow curry powder cube powder

Forms

Plural
powders → dusts, cocaines, efflorescences, pulverizations…
Past participle
powdered
e.g. powdered → pulverized, grinded, pounded, triturated…

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
powdersteady
pulverizesteady
trituratefalling
comminutefalling
levigatefalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
dust1, dash1
5 letters
pound1, grind1, rouge1
7 letters
cocaine2
8 letters
levigate
9 letters
pulverize3, pulverise, triturate, comminute, powderise, laevigate
13 letters
efflorescence, pulverization, pulverisation

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cocaine2 = 2 syllables).