pouncing
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Definitions ofpouncing
- To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.
Example: "to pounce paper, or a pattern"
- To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something.
Example: "She pounced on the young man, because she loved him and wanted him for herself."
- To attack suddenly by leaping.
Example: "I was awakened from a dead sleep by my child pouncing on top of me from out of nowhere."
- To eagerly seize an opportunity.
Example: "I pounced on the chance to get promoted."
- To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
- To stamp holes in; to perforate.
- The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.
- Decorative perforation of cloth.
- A sudden leap, as of an animal when it pounces.
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