dust

• annihilate
• beat
• beat the pants off
• best
• better
• blow away
• bomb
• break
• bury
• cap
• castoff
• chaff
• clobber
• conquer
• continent
• cream
• crud
• crush
• cull
• deadwood
• debris
• destroy
• detritus
• dirt
• discard
• dispatch
• do in
• dreck
• drek
• dross
• drub
• dump
• earth
• eat alive
• eclipse
• effluvia
• effluvium
• exceed
• excel
• finish
• flatten
• flotsam
• flourish
• garbage
• ground
• hand-me-down
• hurdle
• island
• isthmus
• jetsam
• junk
• knock off
• knock over
• land
• landmass
• lick
• litter
• lumber
• mainland
• master
• nose out
• nothing
• odds and ends
• offal
• offscouring
• outdistance
• outdo
• outfight
• outshine
• outstrip
• overbear
• overcome
• overmatch
• overpower
• overthrow
• overtop
• overwhelm
• paste
• peninsula
• pip
• raffle
• refuse
• reject
• remains
• riffraff
• rout
• rubbish
• rubble
• ruins
• run circles around
• run rings around
• score
• scrap
• scrap heap
• sewage
• shellac
• sink
• skin
• skunk
• slaughter
• slop
• smoke
• smother
• snow under
• soil
• spilth
• straw
• subdue
• subjugate
• succeed
• surmount
• surpass
• sweep
• swill
• take
• terra firma
• thrash
• throw
• throwaway
• top
• transcend
• trash
• trim
• tromp
• trounce
• truck
• trumpery
• two bits
• upend
• upset
• vanquish
• wallop
• wash
• waste
• wax
• whap
• whip
• whomp
• whop
• whup
• wipe the floor with
• wipe the ground with
• worst
• wreckage
• zone

• booty
• catch
• find
• gem
• goodie
• goody
• jewel
• pearl
• plum
• prize
• salvage
• treasure
• treasure trove
• trove
• valuable

• noun
  1. Fine particles.
  2. The act of cleaning by dusting.
  3. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
  4. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
  5. Something worthless.
  6. A low or mean condition.
  7. Cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
  8. A disturbance or uproar.
  9. A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
• verb
  1. To remove dust from.
  2. To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
  3. Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
  4. To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
  5. To leave; to rush off.
  6. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
  7. To kill or severely disable.

• She wiped the shelves to remove the accumulated dust.
• The old book was covered in dust.
• Wind carried dust from the dry field into the village.
• After the construction, the room was full of dust.
• He sneezed because of the dust in the attic.

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