pounce 1 
(pouns)
(pouns)intr.v. pounced, pounc·ing, pounc·es
1. To spring or swoop with intent to seize someone or something: a cat that pounced on a mouse; watched the falcon pounce on the baby rabbit.
2. To attack or criticize suddenly: troops that pounced on a convoy; a reporter who pounced on a politician's change of position.
3. To turn the attention to and try to take advantage of: pounce on an opportunity; pounced on his mistake.
n.
The act or an instance of pouncing.
[From Middle English, pointed tool, talon of a hawk, shortening of ponson, pointed tool, variant of punchon, pointed tool; see PUNCHEON1.]
pouncer n.
- primary growth
- primary meristem
- primary root
- primary school
- primary stress
- primary structure
- primary succession
- primary syphilis
- primary tissue
- primary tooth
- primary verb
- primary xylem
- primate
- primatial
- primatological
- primatologist
- primatology
- primavera
- prima vera
- primavera
- prime
- prime interest rate
- primely
- prime meridian
- prime minister