powderise
- v become powder or dust
- v make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
possess
- n a temporary police force
- v have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill
he possesses great knowledge about the Middle East - v have ownership or possession of
- v enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas
What possessed you to buy this house?
A terrible rage possessed her
postdate
- v be later in time
- v establish something as being later relative to something else
postpose
- v place after another constituent in the sentence
Japanese postposes the adpositions, whereas English preposes them
potentiate
- v increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon)
potentiate the drug
pound up
- v shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
pour
- v cause to run
pour water over the floor - v move in large numbers
people were pouring out of the theater - v pour out
- v flow in a spurt
Water poured all over the floor - v supply in large amounts or quantities
We poured money into the education of our children - v rain heavily
Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!