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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.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.
- 2noun
Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc.
- 3transitive verb
To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern.
- 4transitive verb
The claw or talon of a bird of prey.
- 5transitive verb
A punch or stamp.
- 6transitive verb
Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
- 7transitive verb
To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
- 8transitive verb
To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament.
- 9intransitive verb
To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.
- 10noun
the act of pouncing
- 11verb
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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