dusting

Meaning of dusting

verb
  1. To remove dust from.
    The cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard.
  2. To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
    Dusting always makes me cough.
  3. Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
  4. To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
    The mother dusted her baby's bum with talcum powder.
  5. To leave; to rush off.
  6. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
  7. To kill or severely disable.
noun
  1. A light snowfall.
  2. A light covering of something.
    Cover the cake with a dusting of confectioner's sugar.
  3. The act of removing dust, as a household chore.
    Tuesday is the day when I do the dusting.
  4. A beating.

Information about dusting

  • The plural form of dusting is: dustings.
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Hyphenation of dusting

dust-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • dusting is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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