Meaning

1 senses

  1. To abrade or roughen with pumice.

More definitions
  • rub with pumice, in order to clean or to smoothen

Examples

4 sentences

  1. The rough pumice can abrade the skin.

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  2. I rub the soles of my feet with pumice in order to smooth them.

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  3. This is a pumice stone.

    ruЭто пемза. — marafon

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  4. Is this pumice?

    ruЭто пемза? — Balamax · CC BY 2.0 FR

    deIst das Bims? — Balamax · CC BY 2.0 FR

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Origin

From Anglo-Norman and Old French pomis (“pumice stone”), from Latin pūmex (“pumice stone”)

From Anglo-Norman and Old French pomis (“pumice stone”), from Latin pūmex (“pumice stone”). Doublet of pounce.

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Forms

pumices, pumicing, pumiced, pumiced
Base formpumice · to pumice
3rd person singularpumices
Present participlepumicing
Past simplepumiced
Past participlepumiced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypumice
he, she, itpumices

Past simpleLesson

all personspumiced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pumiced
he, she, ithas pumiced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pumice

Word family

2 related words
Relatedpumice stonepumiceous

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pulsatepulseB2pumapummelpumpB1pumpkinB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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