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powdered

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈpaʊdəd//
  • United States//ˈpaʊdɚd//

Which has been made into a powder.

adjective

  1. 1

    Which has been made into a powder.

    powdered milk

  2. 2

    Which has been covered with powder (typically referring to makeup).

    powdered ladies

    powdered wig

  3. 3

    obsoleteSprinkled with salt; salted; corned.

    Powdered beef, pickled meats

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verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of powdersimple past and past participle of powder

Forms

comparative
more powdered
superlative
most powdered
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).