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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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PULVERIZED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of pulverize 2. to press or crush something until it becomes…. Learn more.
to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize; annihilate, demolish; to become pulverized… See the full definition
to press or crush something until it becomes powder or a soft mass: Seashells were pulverized by the ocean’s waves.
verb. 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.
to press or crush something until it becomes powder or a soft mass: Seashells were pulverized by the ocean’s waves.
pul·ver·ize. (pŭl′və-rīz′) v. pul·ver·ized, pul·ver·iz·ing, pul·ver·iz·es. v.tr. 1. To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust. 2. To overwhelm or defeat utterly: The visitors pulverized the home team. v.intr. To be ground or reduced to powder or dust. [Middle English pulverizen, from Late Latin pulverizāre, from Latin pulvis, pulver-, dust .]
To pulverize something means to do great damage to it or to destroy it completely. ...the economic policies which pulverised the economy during the 1980s. [VERB noun] A factory making armaments had been bombed and a residential area not far away had been pulverized. [VERB noun] Synonyms: destroy, wreck, demolish, flatten More Synonyms of pulverize.
