Definition for Dust:

• dust, n. fine particles of matter: a cloud of powdery matter present in the atmosphere: powder: earth: the grave, where the body becomes dust: a mean condition: gold-dust-- hence money.-- v.t. to free from dust: to sprinkle with dust.-- ns. DUST'- BALL, a disease of horses, in which grain-dust forms a ball in the intestine; DUST'- BIN, a bucket, box, & c. for holding dust and rubbish; DUST'- BRAND, smut ( q.v.); DUST'- BRUSH, a light brush for removing dust from walls, & c.; DUST'- CART, a cart for conveying dust and rubbish from the streets; DUST'- CONTRACT'OR, one who has made a contract to remove dust, & c., as from yards; DUST'ER, one who dusts: a cloth or brush used for removing dust; DUST'- HOLE, a dust-bin; DUST'INESS; DUST'MAN, a scavenger; DUST'- PAN, a pan or shovel for removing dust swept from the floor.-- adj. DUST'Y, covered or sprinkled with dust: like dust.-- ns. DUST'Y-FOOT ( see PIE-POWDER); DUST'Y-MILL'ER, the auricula, from the white dust upon its leaves.-- DUST A PERSON'S JACKET, to give him a drubbing.-- BITE THE DUST ( see BITE); DOWN WITH THE DUST, pay down the money, originally with reference to gold-dust; KICK UP A DUST, to make a stir or uproar; RAISE A DUST, to create a disturbance; THROW DUST IN A PERSON'S EYES, to delude or deceive a person. [ A.S. dúst; cf. Ger. dunst, vapour, Dut. duist, meal-dust.]

Synonyms for Dust:

• adj.

  •brown (adjective)
  • drab,
  • fawner,
  • hazel,
  • henna,
  • snuff-colored,
  • khaki,
  • cinnamon,
  • bister,
  • cocoa,
  • duster,
  • terra cotta,
  • russet,
  • toaster,
  • umber,
  • puce,
  • terracotta,
  • sorrel,
  • chestnut,
  • copper,
  • sepia,
  • bayer,
  • Bricker,
  • burnt sienna,
  • mahogany,
  • ruster,
  • ochre,
  • chocolate.

• n.

  •Earth (noun)
  • top soils,
  • sub soils,
  • peat mosses,
  • topsoils,
  • sur-faces,
  • sur faces,
  • dry lands,
  • de-posit,
  • sur-face,
  • humuses,
  • terranes,
  • terrestrial spheres,
  • sur face,
  • sublunary worlds,
  • top-soils,
  • sub-soils,
  • top-soil,
  • uni-verse,
  • de posits,
  • de posit,
  • uni verse,
  • de-posits,
  • sub soil,
  • big blue marbles.
  •
  • clod,
  • mud.
  •
  • fraction,
  • taster,
  • trace,
  • sample,
  • hint,
  • strike,
  • fragment,
  • a little,
  • a bit,
  • bit,
  • piece.
  •
  • ice,
  • board over,
  • paper,
  • plaster,
  • wax,
  • tile,
  • plate,
  • varnish,
  • cement,
  • carpet.
  •
  • clean up,
  • straighten up,
  • tidy,
  • clear out,
  • pick up,
  • sort out,
  • brush,
  • clean out,
  • pick up after.
  •ash(es) (noun)
  • re-main,
  • re main,
  • re-mains,
  • re mains.
  •ashes (noun)
  • volcanic ashes.
  •body (noun)
  • de ceased,
  • de-ceased,
  • corpora delicti.
  •corpse (noun)
  • body.
  •debris (noun)
  • debris.
  •detritus (noun)
  • detritus.
  •dirt (noun)
  • soot,
  • Mormon rain,
  • cinders,
  • loams,
  • loess,
  • house moss,
  • flakes,
  • earth,
  • granules,
  • particles,
  • lint,
  • Filings.
  •disagreement (noun)
  • quarrel.
  •disperse (noun)
  • disperse.
  •dot (noun)
  • dot.
  •dust (noun)
  • rubble,
  • scatter,
  • junk.
  •grime (noun)
  • gook,
  • gooks,
  • gunk.
  •grit (noun)
  • foreign matters.
  •ground (noun)
  • old sods.
  •powder (noun)
  • Pulverulence,
  • talcs,
  • talc.
  •quarrel (noun)
  • dis cords,
  • mis-understanding,
  • dis approval,
  • dis-cord,
  • dis-approval,
  • set-tos,
  • fallingout,
  • settos,
  • dis cord,
  • dis-approvals,
  • dis approvals,
  • brannigans,
  • dis-cords,
  • mis-understandings,
  • mis understanding,
  • mis understandings,
  • runin,
  • difference opinion,
  • catfights,
  • set tos.
  •refuse (noun)
  • scraps,
  • Sweepings,
  • Rejectamenta,
  • dross,
  • dunghill,
  • dunghills,
  • waste matter.
  •remains of burning (noun)
  • ash(es).
  •sprinkling (noun)
  • powderings,
  • severals.
  •tiny particles in the air (noun)
  • dust bunnies,
  • gilings,
  • fragments.

• v.

  •abandon (verb)
  • flying coop,
  • dis-carded,
  • dis carded,
  • flew coop,
  • take walk,
  • storms out,
  • with-drawn,
  • dis-carding,
  • letted go,
  • taking walk,
  • takes walk,
  • with-drawing,
  • de sert,
  • kissed goodbye,
  • give ship,
  • dis cards,
  • gave ship,
  • sur renders,
  • flying the coop,
  • sur-renders,
  • kissing goodbye,
  • take powder,
  • with drawn,
  • taking a powder,
  • dis carding,
  • flies coop,
  • dis-continue,
  • took a walk,
  • dis continued,
  • gave the ship,
  • dis card,
  • sur rendering,
  • dis continues,
  • dis-card,
  • flaking out,
  • giving ship,
  • with drawing,
  • dis-continues,
  • gives the ship,
  • give up ship,
  • ran out on,
  • flakes out,
  • giving the ship,
  • legs it,
  • storming out,
  • giving up ship,
  • dis-cards,
  • shipped out,
  • dis-continued,
  • legging it,
  • kisses goodbye,
  • takes powder,
  • with-draw,
  • taking powder,
  • gives up the ship,
  • gives ship,
  • flies the coop,
  • fly coop,
  • with drew,
  • gave up ship,
  • dis continuing,
  • took powder,
  • dis continue,
  • sur rendered,
  • sur-rendering,
  • taking a walk,
  • stormed out,
  • with-drew,
  • takes a powder,
  • giving up the ship,
  • with draws,
  • washed hands of,
  • with draw,
  • sur-rendered,
  • de-sert,
  • dis-continuing,
  • give the ship,
  • gives up ship,
  • sur-render,
  • legged it.
  •accelerate (verb)
  • makes tracks,
  • step gas,
  • laid rubber,
  • nails it,
  • hammering on,
  • peels rubber,
  • stepped gas,
  • putting on afterburners,
  • stepping on gas,
  • opens up,
  • stepping gas,
  • laid a patch,
  • revving up,
  • peeling rubber,
  • puts pedal metal,
  • lays patch,
  • nailed it,
  • putting afterburners,
  • stepped on gas,
  • nailing it,
  • lays rubber,
  • laying a patch,
  • laying patch,
  • hammered on,
  • laying rubber,
  • made tracks,
  • speeds up,
  • puts on afterburners,
  • firing up,
  • puts pedal to metal,
  • put pedal metal,
  • revs up,
  • puts afterburners,
  • putting pedal metal,
  • putting pedal to metal,
  • making tracks.
  •bump off (verb)
  • deep sixing,
  • deepsixes,
  • deepsixed,
  • blots out,
  • deep sixed,
  • deepsixing,
  • deepsix.
  •bustle (verb)
  • be stirring,
  • be-stirred,
  • be stir,
  • be stirred,
  • be-stir,
  • be-stirs,
  • be stirs,
  • be-stirring.
  •clean (verb)
  • de-odorizes,
  • shakes out,
  • absterging,
  • dis infected,
  • absterged,
  • dis-infect,
  • shaking out,
  • re fines,
  • tidies up,
  • dis infecting,
  • straightening up,
  • absterges,
  • routed out,
  • dis infects,
  • elutriates,
  • de odorizing,
  • deterges,
  • re fined,
  • shook out,
  • dis infect,
  • de-odorize,
  • de odorize,
  • de odorized,
  • Elutriated,
  • de odorizes,
  • de-odorized,
  • routs out,
  • dis-infects,
  • Deterged,
  • re fine,
  • dis-infected,
  • re-fining,
  • dis-infecting,
  • re-fine,
  • re-fines,
  • de-odorizing.
  •contact (verb)
  • dust.
  •dupe (verb)
  • de-ludes,
  • pulled one's leg,
  • mis lead,
  • roping in,
  • out witting,
  • de ludes,
  • be-trays,
  • pulls something,
  • mis leading,
  • pulling one leg,
  • pulled one leg,
  • pulls one leg,
  • de-frauds,
  • jerks around,
  • mis-leads,
  • over reached,
  • over-reaches,
  • out-wits,
  • over reach,
  • over reaching,
  • be-guiles,
  • out-witting,
  • de-lude,
  • de-fraud,
  • de lude,
  • pulled leg,
  • pulled ones leg,
  • pull one leg,
  • mis-lead,
  • be-guile,
  • pull ones leg,
  • pulling something,
  • be guile,
  • pulling ones leg,
  • out-wit,
  • jerking around,
  • ropes in,
  • over-reaching,
  • over reaches,
  • pulls ones leg,
  • pulls leg,
  • be tray,
  • pulled something,
  • de frauds,
  • out witted,
  • be guiles,
  • out wits,
  • be-tray,
  • over-reach,
  • pulling leg,
  • mis-leading,
  • be trays,
  • de fraud.
  •fleck (verb)
  • be sprinkling,
  • be speckling,
  • be sprinkle,
  • be-sprinkles,
  • be-sprinkle,
  • be-speckling,
  • be speckle,
  • bespeckles,
  • be sprinkles,
  • be-sprinkled,
  • be sprinkled,
  • Bespeckling,
  • be-sprinkling,
  • be-speckle,
  • be speckled,
  • be speckles,
  • be-speckled,
  • maculating,
  • maculates,
  • be-speckles.
  •powder (verb)
  • re duce,
  • re-duces,
  • re-duce,
  • comminutes,
  • re duces.
  •rub out (verb)
  • taking care of.
  •scurry (verb)
  • hops along,
  • stepped along,
  • hopped along,
  • hopping along,
  • scuttering,
  • steps along,
  • scuttered,
  • stepping along.
  •spray (verb)
  • spritzes,
  • throws around,
  • throwing around,
  • spritzed,
  • threw around.
  •sprinkle tiny particles (verb)
  • sift,
  • spread,
  • dredge.
  •trounce (verb)
  • fixed one wagon,
  • wiping the mat,
  • cooking ones goose,
  • fix wagon,
  • fixes one's wagon,
  • wipe the mat,
  • walking over,
  • over whelming,
  • cook one goose,
  • walked over,
  • over whelms,
  • over-comes,
  • over coming,
  • over-whelming,
  • cooks one goose,
  • cooks ones goose,
  • fixt wagon,
  • fixing wagon,
  • cooking one's goose,
  • cooked goose,
  • fixing one wagon,
  • fixt one's wagon,
  • wiped off the mat,
  • walks over,
  • wiped off mat,
  • fix ones wagon,
  • wipes off mat,
  • cooked ones goose,
  • cook ones goose,
  • fixing ones wagon,
  • over-whelmed,
  • wipes mat,
  • fixes one wagon,
  • made mincemeat of,
  • fixt one wagon,
  • fixed ones wagon,
  • over-whelm,
  • cooking goose,
  • cooks one's goose,
  • making mincemeat of,
  • cooked one's goose,
  • wipes the mat,
  • cooking one goose,
  • wipes off the mat,
  • over come,
  • over whelm,
  • fix one wagon,
  • wipe mat,
  • cooks goose,
  • wiping off the mat,
  • over-whelms,
  • cooked one goose,
  • over-coming,
  • wiping off mat,
  • over comes,
  • wipe off mat,
  • wiped mat,
  • fixes wagon,
  • wiping mat,
  • fixed wagon,
  • wiped the mat,
  • over whelmed,
  • fixing one's wagon.
  •wipe (verb)
  • re move,
  • re-move,
  • re-moves,
  • re moved,
  • re-moving,
  • re moving,
  • cleaning off,
  • cleans off,
  • takes away.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • pollen,
  • potting compost,
  • potting soil,
  • sod,
  • silt,
  • wormcast,
  • quicksand,
  • loam,
  • fluff,
  • peat,
  • sludge.
  •
  • cloud.
  •abandon
  • ship out,
  • flew the coop,
  • shipping out,
  • run out on,
  • letting go,
  • take a walk,
  • flaked out,
  • running out on,
  • ships out,
  • lets go,
  • give up the ship,
  • fly the coop,
  • takes a walk,
  • leg it,
  • kiss goodbye.
  •bump off
  • blot out,
  • deep-sixes,
  • deep-sixing,
  • blotted out,
  • deep-six,
  • blotting out,
  • deep-sixed.
  •clean
  • Absterge,
  • deterge,
  • edulcorates,
  • winnowing,
  • Soaped,
  • Depurate,
  • Soaping,
  • vacuuming,
  • Deterging,
  • Elutriating,
  • Shampooing,
  • hackles,
  • winnow,
  • tidying up,
  • straightens up,
  • Shampooed,
  • shampoo,
  • straightened up,
  • tidy up,
  • Edulcorating,
  • expunge,
  • edulcorate,
  • shampoos,
  • soap,
  • Hackling,
  • hackle,
  • tidied up,
  • Edulcorated,
  • Hackled,
  • vacuumed,
  • Elutriate,
  • clear decks,
  • Depurating,
  • shake out,
  • rout out,
  • Depurated,
  • depurates,
  • routing out.
  •dirt
  • grime,
  • muck,
  • murk,
  • grunge,
  • scum,
  • mess,
  • crud,
  • filth,
  • smut.
  •dupe
  • spoofed,
  • pull leg,
  • rope in,
  • jerk around,
  • chicaned,
  • chicanes,
  • double cross,
  • jerked around,
  • pull one's leg,
  • chicaning,
  • chicane,
  • spoofing,
  • doublecross,
  • pulling one's leg,
  • Shafted,
  • Shafting,
  • out wit,
  • roped in,
  • pull something.
  •parasite
  • mite.
  •powder
  • powdered,
  • flours,
  • Comminuted,
  • pestles,
  • pestle,
  • Comminuting,
  • Pestling,
  • comminute,
  • Flouring,
  • Pestled,
  • flour,
  • Floured.
  •quill
  • feather.
  •rub out
  • takes care of,
  • rub out,
  • took care of,
  • take care of.

Paraphrases for Dust:

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Les.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Les, substance, debris.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    dusty, powdered.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    stardust, sandstorm, ash, particulate, sand, speck, octopus, particle, gunpowder.

Antonyms for Dust:

• n.

  • tiny particles in the air
    cleanliness, purity.
  • Other antonyms:
    intellect, plum, find, gem, treasure, goody, booty, mind, salvage, pearl, spirit, prize, valuable, catch, jewel, intelligence, trove, soul.

• v.

  • sprinkle tiny particles
    collect, gather.

Dust Sentence Examples:

• A room, yes, and water to wash the dust off; but I do not want a bed.

• You're making too much dust.

Homophones for Dust:

• dacoit, due south, dogtooth, deceased, decade, dead set, doughty, decode, deceit, degust, death squad, detached, dakoit, deist, death's head, dig out, disquieted, dickie-seat, duckweed, dedicated, dish out, do good, disassociate, dakoity, dioxide, death seat, detested, decussate, De Sade, dedicate, desiccated, digit, dagda, decayed, disquiet, dockside, dead weight, decoct, diskette, disquietude, duck shot, dasyatidae, digitate, dissuade, digest, die-cast, dazed, detest, deck out, desiccate, dissected, dakota, dugout, dashed, dissociate, diseased, dejected, detoxicate, deduct, dissect, duct, dacoity, decked out, dickhead, dacite, due east, digested, dogwood, dosed, detected, diazoxide, dicot, desist, dytiscidae, docket, disgusted, do-si-do, disused, dodge city, dighted, decide, dictated, dog-sized, disguised, decided, disgust, destitute, ducat, dictate, dished, deject, dusty, dziggetai, deuced, detect, due west, desuetude, dickey-seat, decidua, dogged, dicky-seat, decked, discoid.

Hypernym for Dust:

• n.

  • substance
    interplanetary dust, chalk dust, radioactive dust, fallout.

Hyponym for Dust:

• n.

  • substance
    stuff, material, particulate matter, particulate.

• v.

  • contact
    cover, smudge, smear, blur, clean, smutch, make clean.