0 present participle of pounce
1 to jump or move quickly in order to catch or take hold of something:
Within-species interactions were somewhat more common, consisting of displacements of feeding individuals by lunging or pouncing.
The playing is breathtaking, repeatedly pouncing on the impossible and shaping it into a compelling experience.
It looks like a delicious irony, and the enemies of global capitalism are pouncing gleefully upon it.
In the biological example of the cat playing with a captured mouse, variations in amplitude of pouncing, for example, test the limits of the prey's reactions.
He has shown that there will he a gap between the commission of an offence—a breach of the licence—and the pouncing upon it by the director.
The red fox is another year-round resident, listening for and pouncing on mice moving under six feet of snow.
Immediately before pouncing, they emit a loud, distinctive shriek.
The school's mascot is a cougar, which appears on its logo pouncing in front of a wave.
