powder

1. 1.

   make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust

   “pulverize the grains”

   Synonymspowderizepowderisepulverizepulverise

   Broaderdisintegrate
2. 2.

   apply powder to

   “She powdered her nose”

   “The King wears a powdered wig”

   Broadermake up

   Narrowertalc

Other forms of powder

plural

powders·

past tense

powderred·

present participle

powderring·

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.

Questions about powder

What does powder mean?

powder means "a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in powder?

powder has 2 syllables: pow-der. The stress falls on "pow". In IPA it is /ˈpaʊdɚ/.

What is another word for powder?

Close synonyms include pulverization, pulverisation, gunpowder, powderize, powderise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is powder a common word?

powder is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with powder?

1 word rhymes with powder. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.