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Pulverize   /pˈəlvərˌaɪz/   Listen
Pulverize

verb
(past & past part. pulverized; pres. part. pulverizing)
1.
Make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust.  Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverise.
2.
Destroy completely.  Synonyms: demolish, pulverise.  "Demolish your enemies" , "Pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand"
3.
Become powder or dust.  Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise.






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"Pulverize" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pulverize the coffee to pass without residue through a sieve having circular openings 1 mm. in diameter. Treat a 10-gram sample with 10 grams of 10-percent ammonium hydroxid and 200 grams of chloroform in a glass-stoppered ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

... always raised from seed, which may be sown in the open ground from April to July. Select a rich, moist soil, pulverize it well, and rake the surface smooth. Make the drills three feet apart, and an inch and a half or two inches deep; and sow the seed thinly, or so as to secure a plant for each foot of row. In five or six weeks from the planting, the branches will have grown sufficiently ...
— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr

... . . . But one does not do these things at forty years. I am out of breath, what? I wish to stop. Arrest yourselves, my friends too impetuous! I appeal to you in the name of France, who respects you: do not annihilate me, do not pulverize me. . . . . Vain appeal! One would say the car of Juggernaut. I am knocked down: I am crible with kicks: I am massacred. . . . . ...
— The Casual Ward - academic and other oddments • A. D. Godley



Words linked to "Pulverize" :   pulverization, powderise, disintegrate, powder, destruct, destroy



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