0 past simple and past participle of dust
1 to use a cloth to remove dust from the surface of something:
I was dusting the mantelpiece when I noticed a crack.
It is an embarrassed and embarrassing category from which the beautiful, the tasteful, the artistic, must be constantly separated and dusted off.
Indeed, it appears that the centralist-rationalist and liberal-democratic paradigms of the 1960s have been little more than dusted-off and put back into service.
At the same time, however, the city dusted off its plans of the 1930s and early 1940s for a major programme of slum clearance and redevelopment in its central areas.
Postpronotal lobes and pleura yellowish-white dusted.
Therefore, a 20-year old plan can be taken off a shelf, dusted down and it does not need an environmental impact assessment for approval.
All the bad means from the past were dusted down, this time to break any opposition to progress.
These are sermons brought out of the filing cabinet, dusted and used again when someone is asked to speak in certain places.
About five or six fields have already been announced, and a number of other plans have been dusted off.
