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Crossword-Solution: POUNCE 6 letters, 62 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Pounce n. A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, --
formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.
Pounce n. Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making
patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace
makers, etc.
Pounce v. t. To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or
a pattern.
Pounce v. t. The claw or talon of a bird of prey.
Pounce v. t. A punch or stamp.
Pounce v. t. Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
Pounce v. t. To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with
the talons.
Pounce v. t. To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on,
by way of ornament.
Pounce v. i. To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or
upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.

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We have 62 clues for the answer “POUNCE”

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Spring forward 1 answer
Dive upon 1 answer
Don't let an opportunity get away 1 answer
Feline attack 1 answer
Jump (on) suddenly 1 answer
Jump at the chance 1 answer
Jump like Fluffy 1 answer
Leap like a leopard 1 answer
Leap, as a leopard 1 answer
Leopard Leap like a 1 answer
Lion's sudden attack 1 answer
Make an abrupt assault. 1 answer
Not let a big opportunity slip by, say 1 answer
Not let an opportunity get away 1 answer
Prey (on), cat-style 1 answer
Big cats and opportunists both do this 1 answer
Spring upon 1 answer
Spring upon unexpectedly 1 answer
Spring, as a cat 1 answer
Strike suddenly, like a cat 1 answer
Sudden swoop 1 answer
Swoop (onto) 1 answer
Swoop (upon) 1 answer
Swoop and seize 1 answer
Swoop down (on) 1 answer
Swoop down and seize 1 answer
Swoop on 1 answer
Talon of a bird of prey 1 answer
The raptor swooped down on its prey 1 answer
move down on as if in an attack 1 answer
Accost, with "on" 1 answer
Accost a sucker 1 answer
Attack, like a cat 2 answers
Attack without warning 2 answers
Eagle's claw 2 answers
ARAR tree, commercial product of the 2 answers
Sudden seizure 2 answers
Attack from hiding 3 answers
Spring suddenly 3 answers
Jump on 7 answers
Swoop 7 answers
A SUDDEN UNCONTROLLABLE ATTACK 10 answers
ATTACK FOOL NOT BEGINNING TO JUMP 10 answers
AN ATTACK WITHOUT WARNING 10 answers
Attack suddenly 10 answers
ATTACK MAGISTRATE WITHOUT HESITATION 10 answers
ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS SUDDENLY OR BY CHANCE WITHOUT AN APPARENT CAUSE 10 answers
ATTACK SUDDENLY AND WITHOUT WARNING 10 answers
ATTACK SUDDEN 10 answers
A sudden short attack 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POUNCE (5)

When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Some bored random user trying a couple of the simpler features with a developer looking over his or her shoulder, ready to pounce on mistakes.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Gradually he became accustomed to the strange noises and the odd ways of civilization, so that presently none might know that two short months before, this handsome Frenchman in immaculate white ducks, who laughed and chatted with the gayest of them, had been swinging naked through primeval forests to pounce upon some unwary victim, which, raw, was to fill his savage belly.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Behind them stood Tarzan of the Apes where they had left him, a grim smile upon his lips—waiting for the enemy he fully expected was about to pounce upon him.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
When the Christian hero of a hundred charitable victories plunges into a pitfall that has been dug for him by mistake, oh, what a warning it is to the rest of us to be unceasingly on our guard! How soon may our own evil passions prove to be Oriental noblemen who pounce on us unawares! I could write pages of affectionate warning on this one theme, but (alas!) I am not permitted to improve—I am condemned to narrate.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994

Quotes with POUNCE (3)

There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, …
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
When an animal dies, another of the same species may cling to the body, eat the body, or look bored. Bees expel dead bodies from the hive or, if that is impossible, embalm them in honey. Elephants "say" a ritualistic good-bye, and touch their dead before slowly walking away. Corvids often accept the death of a companion without much fuss, but they at times have “funerals,” where scores of birds lament over the corpse of a deceased crow. But it is a bit odd that people should …
Boria Sax The Raven and the Sun: Poems and Stories
Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said, Are innocent and fathomless And when I look at them I see That they are not aware of me And oh I find and oh I bless A comfort in this emptiness They only see me when they want To pounce upon me at the hunt; But in the tame variety There couches an anxiety As if they yearned, yet knew not what They yearned for, nor they yearned for not. And so my dog would look at me And it was pitiful to see Such love and such dependency. The human hea…
Stevie Smith
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 40 times in crossword archives (1965–2025).