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powdery

US pronunciation
American soundpowdery
powdery
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3 syllables
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Final y vowel sound

pow - de - ry -> powdery

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powder /'paƱdǝ(r)/ n

၁။ [C,U] (က) အမှုန့်။ lumps of chalk crushed to (a) powder ❍ The snow was like powder.
(ခ) … မှုန့်။ chilli/ curry powder ❍ face powder ❍ a range of washing powders. See also SOAP POWDER, TALCUM POWDER.
၂။ [U] = GUNPOWDER
v ပေါင်ဒါရိုက်သည်၊ တို့သည်။ powder one's face/ nose.
❏ keep one's powder dry [IDM ] [ဥ] တိုက်ပွဲဝင်ရန် အမြဲ အရန်သင့်။ The problem may not arise, but there's no harm in keeping our powder dry.
❏ powder blue adj, n (အဖြူလုသော) အပြာနု။
❏ powdered adj (အရည်ကိုသွေ့ပြီး) အမှုန့်ပြုလုပ်ထားသော။ powdered milk/ eggs ❍ The detergent is sold in powdered form.
❏ powdered sugar n [U] (US) = CASTOR SUGAR
❏ powder-keg n
၁။ ယမ်းမှုန့်ထည့်သော စည် ကလေး။
၂။ (ပေါက်ကွဲတော့မည့်) စိုးရိမ်ဖွယ်ရာ အခြေအနေ။ The country is a powder-keg waiting to explode.
❏ powder one's nose [IDM ] (euph ) (အမျိုးသမီး) သန့်စင်ခန်းဝင်သည်။
❏ powder-puff n တို့ဖတ်။
❏ powder-room n (euph ) အမျိုးသမီး ကိုယ်လက်သန့်စင် ခန်း။
❏ powdery /'paƱdǝri/ adj … အမှုန့်။ a light fall of powdery snow.

More examples
  • Chilli powder
  • The detergent is sold in both liquid and powder forms.
Synonyms
fine particles, dust, residue, concentrate, face powder, gunpowder, abrade, ash, bray, cinereal, comminute, cosmetics, cover, crumb, crumble, crunch, crush, dredge, file, film, fine, flour, grain, granite, granulate, grate, gray, grey, grind, grit, heather, meal, mill, oyster, particle, pestle, pounce, pound, precipitate, process, pulverize, pulverulence, rasp, reduce, scatter, scrape, seed, shavings, silvered, silvery, slater, smash, stoner, strew, talc, triturate
Antonyms
build, solid, solidify
Cross references
fine particlesdustresidueconcentrateface powdergunpowderabradeashbraycinerealcomminutecosmeticscovercrumbcrumblecrunchcrushdredgefilefilmfineflourgraingranitegranulategrategraygrey
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