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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pounce \Pounce\, n. [F. ponce pumice, pounce, fr. L. pumex, -icis, pumice. See Pumice .] A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript. Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cat pounces on sth (= jumps on something and catches it ) ▪ The cat was hiding, waiting to pounce on the bird. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB on ▪ Lucy who didn't know she was going to be pounced on . ▪ Those that ...
Usage examples of pounce.
He waved a pulse cartridge rifle unsteadily with one hand, shooting again and again, but three armored cymeks pounced upon him from their own aerofoil vessels.
I looked back, saw an odd shadow, and was about to say something when Alake pounced on me.
Had he been able to state his mind, Asey thought as he started to inch around the side of the house, the doctor would undoubtedly have expressed some sardonic sentiment about Two - gun Blaney about to pounce on his villain, and added something about his own personal preference for staying well in the background on all such occasions.
Pouncing for the phone book, Weston was trying to find the name of Bayle, when Cranston reached across his shoulder and pointed it out for him.
His blunderbuss was underneath the borrowed overalls, and he had no time to fumble for it before his opponent had pounced on him and caught his throat in a deadly grip.
Hua, seeing their daughter lying there dead on the bridal couch, naturally were beside themselves with anger and grief, and immediately pounced on the first likely suspect.
Yet before I had time to establish myself in my usual coign of vantage behind the door I found myself pounced upon by Mimi--always the cause of my misfortunes!
They clutched at the frames of their cots as the sudden acceleration pounced on them.
He was like a cougar just before it pounced, his voice low while his biofield crouched to attack.
This ravenous appetite would at last have weakened me to death, had I not made up my mind to pounce upon, and to swallow, every kind of eatables I could find, whenever I was certain of not being seen.
When the police pounced on her, they found no gaming and no gamesters, and nothing could be done.
When the Shark moved toward Cubby with its jagged teeth exposed, he pounced on it.
That left only the controls at the security station if he wanted to deactivate the shields, but could he get to it in time, before the were-thing pounced upon him?
Well, I got away from him somehow, but when I was passing through the door, it must be the divel himself that pounced down on me with his claws, and his teeth, that were equal to sixpenny nails, and his wings-ill luck be in his road!
Whereas before, a world-weary dragoman had hardly been able to set foot on the veranda of a tourist hotel without being pounced upon by wealthy Europeans in search of the rumored depravities of the Levant, now these same poor slaves to the lusts of foreign exploiters were summarily scorned.