Synonyms of the word

dust

• n. (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically…
• n. (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
• n. (obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
• n. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
• n. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
• n. (figuratively) Something worthless.
• n. (figuratively) A low or mean condition.
• n. (slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
• n. (mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
• v. (transitive) To remove dust from.
• v. (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
• v. (intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
• v. (transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
• v. (chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.
• v. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

blur

• v. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
• v. To smear, stain or smudge.
• v. (intransitive) To become indistinct.
• v. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
• v. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
• n. A smear, smudge or blot.
• n. Something that appears hazy or indistinct.
• n. (obsolete) A moral stain or blot.
• adj. (Malaysia, Singapore, informal) In a state of doubt or confusion.

clean

• adj. (heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
• adj. (heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
• adj. Smooth, exact, and performed well.
• adj. (obsolete) Total; utter.
• adj. (informal) Cool or neat.
• adj. (health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
• adj. That does not damage the environment.
• adj. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
• adj. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
• adj. Well-proportioned; shapely.
• adj. (climbing, of a route) Ascended without falling.
• n. Removal of dirt.
• n. (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground…
• v. (transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.
• v. (transitive) To tidy up, make a place neat.
• v. (transitive, climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
• v. (intransitive) To make things clean in general.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure…
• v. (manga fandom slang) To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting…
• v. To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
• adv. Fully and completely.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

debris

• n. Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
• n. Litter and discarded refuse.
• n. The ruins of a broken-down structure.
• n. (geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.

detritus

• n. (countable, chiefly geological) pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
• n. (biology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
• n. debris or fragments of disintegrated material.

discharge

• v. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
• v. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
• v. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
• v. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
• v. To expel or let go.
• v. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
• v. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
• v. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
• v. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
• v. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
• v. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the…
• v. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
• v. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or…
• v. To give forth; to emit or send out.
• v. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
• v. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
• v. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
• n. (medicine, uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection…
• n. the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.
• n. the act of expelling or letting go.
• n. (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge.
• n. (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
• n. (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
• n. (hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of…

disperse

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
• v. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
• adj. Scattered or spread out.

dot

• n. A small spot.
• n. (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word;…
• n. A diacritical mark comprised of a small opaque circle above or below any of various letters of the Latin…
• n. (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part,…
• n. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
• n. (obsolete) A lump or clot.
• n. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
• n. (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
• v. (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
• v. (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
• v. To mark by means of dots or small spots.
• v. To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
• prep. Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
• n. (US, Louisiana) A dowry.

junk

• n. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
• n. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
• n. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
• n. (slang) Genitalia.
• n. (nautical) Salt beef.
• n. Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces,…
• n. (dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
• v. (transitive) To throw away.
• v. (transitive) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop).
• n. (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.

material

• adj. Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
• adj. Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
• adj. (law, accounting) Significant.
• n. Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
• n. Text written for a specific purpose.
• n. A sample or specimens for study.
• n. Cloth to be made into a garment.
• n. A person who is qualified for a certain position or activity.
• n. Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
• n. The substance that something is made or composed of.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.

particulate

• adj. Composed of separate particles.
• adj. (genetics) Pertaining to heritable characteristics which are attributable discretely to either one or…
• n. Any solid or liquid in a subdivided state, especially one that exhibits special characteristics which…

rubbish

• adj. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.
• interj. (colloquial) Expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.
• interj. Expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense.
• n. Garbage, junk, refuse, waste.
• n. Nonsense.
• n. (archaic) ruins or debris of buildings.
• v. To denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.

rubble

• n. The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
• n. (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring…
• n. (Britain, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran,…

scatter

• v. (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
• v. (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
• v. (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
• v. (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
• v. (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
• v. (transitive) To be dispersed upon.

scrap

• n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
• n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
• n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
• n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
• v. (transitive) To discard.
• v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
• v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
• v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
• n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
• v. to fight.

smear

• v. (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To have a substance smeared on (a surface).
• v. (transitive) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false…
• v. (intransitive) To become spread by smearing.
• v. (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
• n. A mark made by smearing.
• n. (medicine) A Pap smear.
• n. A false attack.
• n. (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe…
• n. (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.

smudge

• n. A blemish; a smear.
• n. Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
• n. (US) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of…
• n. (paganism, especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
• v. To obscure by blurring; to smear.
• v. To soil or smear with dirt.
• v. To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
• v. To stifle or smother with smoke.
• v. (paganism, intransitive) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
• v. (paganism, transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).

smutch

• v. To soil, stain or smudge.
• n. A stain, smudge or blot.

sprinkle

• v. (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for…
• v. (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
• v. (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
• v. (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse;…
• n. A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
• n. A light rain shower.

stuff

• n. Miscellaneous items; things; (with possessive) personal effects.
• n. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
• n. A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
• n. Abstract substance or character.
• n. (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
• n. (slang, informal) Substitution for trivial details.
• n. (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
• n. (obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
• n. (obsolete) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
• n. (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship…
• n. Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
• v. (transitive) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
• v. (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
• v. (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
• v. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
• v. (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing…
• v. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
• v. (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense…
• v. (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
• v. (transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or…
• v. (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
• v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, idiomatic) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
• interj. (slang) A filler term used to dismiss explanation.

trash

• n. (chiefly US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
• n. A container into which things are discarded.
• n. Something worthless or of poor quality.
• n. (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash…
• n. (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
• n. (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered…
• n. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
• v. (US) To discard.
• v. (US) To make into a mess.
• v. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
• v. (US) To disrespect someone or something.
• v. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
• v. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
• v. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain;…