Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
- intransitive verb To overwhelm or defeat utterly.
- intransitive verb To be ground or reduced to powder or dust.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like.
- intransitive verb To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb American Alternative spelling of
pulverise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb destroy completely
- verb become powder or dust
- verb make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To get at a few precious particles, though, he has to pulverize the rocks, then scrape them.
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The Oligarchy has kicked into high gear, exploiting the social dislocations of the Great Recession to disfranchise, pulverize, bat down, and crush the working middle class.
Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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And we must not just beat Prop 23, we must pulverize it like the dust beneath our feet.
Ryan Van Lenning: Why Californians Must Crush Prop 23 Ryan Van Lenning 2010
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The forces necessary to move such massive mountains would cause the strata to fold or break apart and would completely pulverize entire rocks.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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And we must not just beat Prop 23, we must pulverize it like the dust beneath our feet.
Ryan Van Lenning: Why Californians Must Crush Prop 23 Ryan Van Lenning 2010
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And we must not just beat Prop 23, we must pulverize it like the dust beneath our feet.
Ryan Van Lenning: Why Californians Must Crush Prop 23 Ryan Van Lenning 2010
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And we must not just beat Prop 23, we must pulverize it like the dust beneath our feet.
Ryan Van Lenning: Why Californians Must Crush Prop 23 Ryan Van Lenning 2010
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The energy necessary to pulverize the reinforced core of the towers would make it impossible for them to collapse at free-fall speed, yet they did.
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And we must not just beat Prop 23, we must pulverize it like the dust beneath our feet.
Ryan Van Lenning: Why Californians Must Crush Prop 23 Ryan Van Lenning 2010
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Steven Austin gives the following overview: (1) Fast-flowing water (faster than twenty miles an hour) can pulverize solid rock.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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