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POWDERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Consisting of fine particles
Example:
pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding
Synonyms:
fine-grained; powdered; powdery; pulverised; pulverized; small-grained
Classified under:
Similar:
fine (of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb powder
Context examples:
Go to a mountainous area, perhaps covered with lots of powdered snow where you will see crocus lift their little heads up through the snow or moist soil.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
From head to foot I was powdered almost as white with chalk and dust, as if I had come out of a lime-kiln.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In the centre of the dais were two very high chairs with dorserets, which arched forwards over the heads of the occupants, the whole covered with light-blue silk thickly powdered with golden stars.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The rules of the service insured that every face should be clean-shaven, every head powdered, and every neck covered by the little queue of natural hair tied with a black silk ribbon.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A soy-based powdered nutritional supplement drink containing carrot, Jilin ginseng, licorice root and tangerine peel with potential antioxidant, immunomodulating and protective activities.
(Carrot/Jilin Ginseng/Licorice Root/Tangerine Peel/Soy Beverage, NCI Thesaurus)
No sound, no heat, no movement came from it, but still the great luminous curtain glowed before us, silvering all the cave and turning the sand to powdered jewels, until as we drew closer it discovered a circular edge.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Long before it was done, Mr. Trelawney (that, you will remember, was the squire's name) had got up from his seat and was striding about the room, and the doctor, as if to hear the better, had taken off his powdered wig and sat there looking very strange indeed with his own close-cropped black poll.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Traversing the long and matted gallery, I descended the slippery steps of oak; then I gained the hall: I halted there a minute; I looked at some pictures on the walls (one, I remember, represented a grim man in a cuirass, and one a lady with powdered hair and a pearl necklace), at a bronze lamp pendent from the ceiling, at a great clock whose case was of oak curiously carved, and ebon black with time and rubbing.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
What chemist sold him the powdered opium?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I told you they dressed me up, but I didn't tell you that they powdered and squeezed and frizzled, and made me look like a fashion-plate.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
