Pulverize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
  • v. To demolish.
  • verb-intransitive. To be ground or reduced to powder or dust.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Alternative spelling of pulverise.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like.
  • verb-intransitive. To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To reduce to fine powder, as by pounding, grinding, etc.
  • To become reduced to fine powder; fall to dust.
  • In ornithology, to roll or wallow in the dust; take a sand- or dust-bath, as a hen or partridge.
  • Also spelled pulverise.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. destroy completely
  • v. become powder or dust
  • v. make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
    • Verb Form
    pulverized    pulverizes    pulverizing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    destroy    destruct    disintegrate   
    Form
    pulverized    pulverizing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    powder    triturate    levigate    grind    pound   
     
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