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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



... outfit is camping on a canyon the other side of the range. Old Rabbit Tail told me this morning when he brought down the wood. It's there they find the rock they make these ollas of. It's a kind of decomposed granite. They pulverize it with their metates, add boiling water and get a very fair clay. Qui-tha is up there with them and his strong medicine has made ...
— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie

... wheat and the grain is very small, owing to the severity of the climate. They also harvest barley, which they pulverize before selling. When work in the field is ended, all male inhabitants go to gather on the mountain a wild herb called "enoriota," and large thorn bushes or "dama," which are used as fuel, since combustibles are scarce in Ladak. You see there neither trees nor gardens, and only ...
— The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ - The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery • Nicolas Notovitch

... entirely composed of strings and threads, of which they make all the ropes that are used in their canoes. Under this there is another rind, or shell rather, of considerable thickness, and very hard. This they burn and pulverize, and use it in this state as a remedy for several distempers. The kernel adheres all round the inside of this shell, being white, and about the thickness of a finger, having a pleasant taste, almost like an ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X • Robert Kerr

... of killing truth by truths. Under the pretense that we want to study it more in detail we pulverize the statue—it is an absurdity of which our pedantry is constantly guilty. Those who can only see the fragments of a thing are to me esprits faux, just as much as those who disfigure the fragments. The good critic ought to be master of the ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... melodramatic author could have contrived a more startling, a more shocking denouement. Burton, notes in hand, stood on the platform, facing the great audience, his brain heavy with arguments and bursting with sesquipedalian and sledge-hammer words to pulverize his exasperating opponent. Mrs. Burton, who had dressed with unusual care, occupied a seat on the platform. "From the time I went in to the time I came out," says one who was present, "I could do nothing but ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright


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