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Wiktionary

  1. dustingnoun

    A light snowfall.

  2. dustingnoun

    A light covering of something.

    Cover the cake with a dusting of confectioner's sugar.

  3. dustingnoun

    The act of removing dust from, as a household chore.

    Tuesday is the day I do the dusting.

  4. dustingnoun

    A beating.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dusting

    of Dust

Rap Dictionary

  1. dustingverb

    To use PCP, a strong hallucinogen that reportedly makes one almost inhumanly strong, also known as "Angel Dust". "Like the Hudson on PCP, when I'm dustin'" -- Wu-Tang Clan (Proteck ya neck).

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dusting in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dusting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of dusting in a Sentence

  1. Patrick DeHaan:

    Especially in California, there has been some level of sticker shock, it would not surprise me if some of the pictures of people getting out and dusting off their bicycle are accurate.

  2. Rob Toomey:

    We’ve been through this a number of times, we’ve been dusting off that kind of work with our members to make sure that everybody is on the same page.

  3. Leon Black:

    Clearly what you're seeing in the energy market with the cataclysmic fall in oil prices - halved in such a short period - I think you will have haves and have nots, we along with others in our industry are dusting off (opportunities).

  4. Alice Clements:

    People are going out during the day to recover what they can, it's not like they're sitting in the shelters helpless, they are salvaging what they can and dusting themselves off.

  5. Bill Cosgrove:

    We learned a lot from the housing crisis, what we went through between 2007 and 2010, the industry is taking those lessons and they are dusting off that playbook.

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