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US
/ˈpəɫvɝˌaɪz/
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VERB
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become powder or dust
When it was blown up, the building powderized -
make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
pulverize the grains -
destroy completely
the wrecking ball demolished the building
How To Use pulverize In A Sentence
- First, if the shaft of a long bone be hit above the junction of diaphysis and epiphysis, the cancellous tissue in and extending from the medullary cavity is pulverised, and examination of fragments from such fractures gives the impression of the inner aspect having been scraped clean. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
- Finally 100 grams of whiting, dry and sifted, are mixed with 5 grams of pulverised supertartrate of potass; this new powder is dissolved in a portion of the above described liquid, in sufficient quantity to form a paste of the proper consistency to be spread with a pencil on the article or part to be gilded. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
- Each of them has the power to exert enormous influence over the gristmill through which government funding is pulverized into short and long term support. Dan Silverstein: The Future of Funding: Development Aid as an Investment
- Kulfi is literally ice milk scented with pulverized almonds and cardamom. Globe and Mail
- Moreover, such a system would prevent the "atomization" of society so much desired by the revolutionaries who wished to remake in a new form that which had been pulverized by liberalism.10 Distributism: Economics as if People Mattered
- pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding
- It pulverises those delicate social mechanisms that control our baser motives.
- Howardites are polymict breccias composed of angular clasts of eucrites and diogenites welded together by pulverized mineral dust.
- The combustion of a vastly increased bulk of pulverized coal and a greatly enlarged combustion zone, extending about forty feet longitudinally into the kiln -- thus providing an area within which the material might be maintained in a clinkering temperature for a sufficiently long period to insure its being thoroughly clinkered from periphery to centre. Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2
- He is set to pulverise his two opponents in the race for the presidency.
