pounce

Meaning

Noun

1. A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.
2. Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.

Verb

To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.

Verb

1. To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something.
2. To attack suddenly by leaping.
3. To eagerly seize an opportunity.
4. To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
5. To stamp holes in; to perforate.

Synonyms

swoop

bounce

jump

spring

stoop

throw oneself at

leap

attack

👊

jump at

boar

🐗

bound

brace

break through

brood

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cartload

catch

charge

chowder

circle

⭕

clamour

claw

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

company

corps

covey

descend

drift

drove

dusting

erst

exaltation

fall on

fall upon

family

👪

field

flight

✈️

flock

flush

gaggle

grab

grasp

grist

gulp

harem

herd

hive

hop

intrigue

jump on

kennel

kindle

knot

🪢

leash

mob

murder

mustering

nest

onrush

onset

pack

paddling

parliament

pierce

plump

plunge

pod

powdering

pride

raft

raid

rookery

rout

rush

school

🏫

seize

shiver

shoal

shrewdness

skein

skip

skulk

sleuth

sloth

🦥

snatch

sounder

span

storm

string

🪢

stud

swarm

talon

team

tiding

tittering

train

🚋

tribe

trip

troop

wedge

harras

clowder

swoop down

swoop down on

murmuration

pouncing-powder

hirsel

army

cete

ascension

band

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

bed

🛏️

bevy

bike

🚲

Pronounced as (IPA)

/paʊns/

Etymology

From French ponce, from Latin pūmex. Doublet of pumice.