dust: translation
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noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ fine
▪ airborne
▪ radioactive
▪ house, household
▪ desert (esp. AmE)
▪ cosmic, moon
▪ brick (esp. BrE), chalk, coal, gold, etc.
▪ fairy, magic, pixie (esp. AmE)
… OF DUST
▪ cloud, layer
▪ The tractor came up the track in a cloud of dust.
▪ There was a layer of fine dust on the table.
▪ particle, speck
▪ Remove any particles of dust on the surface of the paint.
▪ microscopic specks of dust
VERB + DUST
▪ collect, gather
▪ Her chess set lay on a shelf gathering dust.
▪ be covered in, be covered with
▪ brush, remove, shake, sweep, sweep up, wipe
▪ He brushed the dust off his clothes.
▪ She shook the dust from her hair.
▪ blow
▪ The wind was blowing dust through the streets of the city.
DUST + VERB
▪ lie
▪ The dust now lay in a thick layer on her piano.
▪ coat sth, cover sth
▪ Dust covered the whole shelf.
▪ settle
▪ The dust settled on everything in the kitchen.
▪ I waited for the dust to settle from her resignation before talking to her about it.(figurative)
▪ blow, float, fly, swirl
▪ Dust swirled around them like a misty cloud.
▪ fall, rise
▪ fill sth
▪ He started coughing as dust filled his lungs.
▪ clear
▪ The dust cleared and Hari could see a tiger.
DUST + NOUN
▪ cloud
▪ grain, mote (old-fashioned), particle
▪ storm
▪ ball, bunny (= a mass of dust and small pieces of hair, thread, etc.) (informal) (both AmE)
▪ devil (= a small column of dust over land, caused by the wind)
▪ bowl
▪ mite
▪ cover (esp. AmE), sheet (BrE) (= for furniture, etc.)
▪ cover (esp. AmE), jacket (= of a book)
▪ mask
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verb
Dust is used with these nouns as the object: ↑furniture