pounce
pounce is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.
- noun. Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc.
- transitive verb. To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern.
- transitive verb. The claw or talon of a bird of prey.
- transitive verb. A punch or stamp.
- transitive verb. Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
- transitive verb. To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
- transitive verb. To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament.
- intransitive verb. To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.
- noun. the act of pouncing
- verb. move down on as if in an attack
"The raptor swooped down on its prey"
"The teacher swooped down upon the new students"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pounce:
Common word forms
pounced, pouncer, pounces, pouncing
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