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say it: duhst
dust is a verb and noun meaning "remove the dust from". It carries 7 recorded senses.
rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
“The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image”
distribute loosely
“He scattered gun powder under the wagon”
fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
“the furniture was covered with dust”
free microscopic particles of solid material
“astronomers say that the empty space between planets actually contains measurable amounts of dust”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dust come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.