Dust
Scatter
Scatter verb - To cover by or as if by scattering something over or on.
Usage example: the hillside was scattered with boulders deposited by the last ice age
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
| time | dust time | scatter time |
Both words in one sentence
- Dustox make messes when they eat, leaving trees barren whenever they swarm into an area and scatter noxious dust as a defense mechanism.
Source: Unpleasant Animal Counterpart -
And even then, the go-elsewhere part is also optional; the person may just scatter into dust lest a truck runs him over.
Source: One to Million to One -
And we can rust the whole world and scatter it into the dust of the universe.
Source: Film / Tetsuo: The Iron Man
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