Cap and Dust

Cap

Cap verb - To set bounds or an upper limit for.

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Dust and cap are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dust" instead a verb "Cap".

Nearby Words: caps, capped, capping

Dust verb - To defeat by a large margin.

Usage example: the inexperienced sprinter somehow dusted the field of veterans

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Cap and dust are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cap" instead a verb "Dust".

Nearby Words: dusty, dusted, dusting, duster

old	old cap	old dust
green	green cap	green dust
blue	blue cap	blue dust
little	little cap	little dust
Other adjectives: black, magic, literal, pink, cosmic, magical, purple.

In The A-Team episode, "Diamonds N' Dust", the team are transporting dynamite - which is not normally volatile until/unless it has a blasting cap attached - but it was really really hot and as a result the sticks of dynamite were sweating nitroglycerine.

Source: Nitro Express
Hoist by His Own Petard: After coming Back from the Dead with the "perfect Aryan" face of his rival, Captain America, his first major scheme ended with him being disfigured with an actual "red skull" for a face after he inhaled his own "dust of death" while trying to kill Cap.

Source: Comicbook / Red Skull

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