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- Dictionarypulverize/ˈpʌlvərʌɪz/
verb
- 1. reduce to fine particles: "the brick of the villages was pulverized by the bombardment" Similar
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PULVERIZE definition: 1. to press or crush something until it becomes powder or a soft mass: 2. to defeat someone easily…. Learn more.
The meaning of PULVERIZE is to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize. How to use pulverize in a sentence.
to reduce (a substance) to fine particles, as by crushing or grinding, or (of a substance) to be so reduced. tr to destroy completely; defeat or injure seriously.
PULVERIZE meaning: 1. to press or crush something until it becomes powder or a soft mass: 2. to defeat someone easily…. Learn more.
When you pulverize something, you break it up until it becomes dust or powder. You might pulverize coffee beans in a grinder, running it until the coffee turns to powder.
To pulverize something means to do great damage to it or to destroy it completely.
1. to reduce (a substance) to fine particles, as by crushing or grinding, or (of a substance) to be so reduced. 2. ( tr) to destroy completely; defeat or injure seriously. [C16: from Late Latin pulverizare or French pulvériser, from Latin pulverum, from pulvis dust] ˈpulverˌizable, ˈpulverˌisable adj.
