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🧴 A soft mineral 🧴 To apply powder
to talc

to talc

7.5
To put a fine powder on the skin to keep it dry and stop it from getting sore
  • verb
  • /tælk/
translation icon : aplicar talco
  • Doctors often recommend parents to talc their baby's diaper area to avoid irritation.

Examples

  • It's a good idea to talc your feet before putting on shoes to prevent sweating.

  • After swimming, she decided to talc her skin to stay dry and comfortable.

  • My bones had turned to jelly and my blood to talc.

    Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

to powder
vsto talc
29 3.8

To put a fine dry substance on skin, hair or food

focuses on reducing skin moisture and preventing irritation

How Much

to coat
105 2.8
to talc
7.5
to dust
54 2.5
to sprinkle
100 1.1

Surface Forms

talc infinitive
talc-ed past
talc-ed past participle
talc-ing present participle
talc third person singular

Etymology

Talc as a verb comes from the same root as the noun and the word talcum, from the old word talk meaning 'powder'. So to talc someone is simply to put that fine powder on the skin to keep it dry.