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pulverized

[puhl-vuh-rahyz]

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verb (used with object)

to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.

to demolish or crush completely.

Slang. to defeat, hurt badly, or, figuratively, render helpless: The Kid pulverized Jackson with a series of brutal lefts. He's a veteran nightclub comic who can pulverize any audience in seconds.

verb (used without object)

to become reduced to dust.

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Also, especially British, pul·ver·ise.

Origin:
1575–85; < Late Latin pulverizāre to reduce to powder, equivalent to Latin pulver- (stem of pulvis; akin to pollen) dust + -izāre -ize

Related forms

pul·ver·iz·a·ble, adjective

pul·ver·i·za·tion, noun

pul·ver·iz·er, noun

sub·pul·ver·iz·er, noun

un·pul·ver·ized, adjective

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In place of a stoker shoveling coal, a blower delivers pulverized coal automatically.

His job had been putting out mine fires with buckets of pulverized rock dust.

The gravitational pull of these white dwarfs can attract nearby asteroids that then get pulverized.

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In place of a stoker shoveling coal, a blower delivers pulverized coal automatically.

His job had been putting out mine fires with buckets of pulverized rock dust.

The gravitational pull of these white dwarfs can attract nearby asteroids that then get pulverized.

The clay is dried and strengthened by adding finely pulverized pottery shards before pots are shaped, painted and fired.

Leave the motor for a few seconds too long and the cubes are pulverized into a fine powder.

They came to be drowned, shot, pulverized and incinerated.

Almost immediately after the strike, however, the pulverized rock rebounds.

No, because the ash the ash is pulverized rock it can scratch up the windshield, too.

Then all the ingredients are pulverized in a molcajete, a mortar and pestle similar to the metate but smaller and bowl-shaped.

Persoone created a snuff dispenser filled with pulverized mint, ginger and cocoa.

Made from the pulverized pulp of wood, cardboard is biodegradable.

To make these sheets, the researchers treated wood pulp with enzymes and then pulverized it.

Blend at high speed until smooth and frothy and ice is pulverized.

Above ground, volcanoes exploded and ice sheets pulverized the continents.

Louis plant that was the first to burn pulverized coal.

Don't worry about making neat squares, because the paper will be pulverized in the blender.

It is indifferent to the prospect of being pulverized.

Pour the pulverized pepper into a gallon container and add enough water to make a gallon of concentrate.

Some ingredients lose their essential character when they are pulverized.

Then, one by one, each lobe of the brain's right hemisphere was snipped with a scissors and pulverized by an ultrasound device.

Countless mummies were pulverized into powders believed to preserve life before death, if not afterward.

Then, below the thick black smoke and through clouds of pulverized plaster, she gradually noticed something worse.

The first is shock-wave lithotripsy, which is a noninvasive technique in which the stones are pulverized.

In the pulverized capital, new rules of hunger etiquette are emerging: no matter what is found, it must be shared.

It sends enough pulverized rock into the atmosphere to disrupt weather around the globe.

Current coal-fired power plants burn pulverized coal using a combustion process that hasn't changed in a half a century.

One second, you'd be creeping up on an enemy encampment, the next you'd be pulverized by a kamikaze pilot.

Once ashore, the coral is carried to kilns where it is pulverized and meets its destiny as cement.

The coral is pulverized with grinding teeth in the fishes' throats in order to get to the algae-filled polyps inside.

Countless bodies remained buried under pulverized buildings in the early hours today.

But for the last two years, the market has handily pulverized him.

Macarthur is a specialist producer of pulverized coal, which is used in the manufacturing of steel.

Macarthur supplies steel mills with more than a third of the pulverized coal in the world.

Put the skinned, toasted nuts in a food processor or electric blender and process until finely chopped but not pulverized.

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Word Origin & History

pulverize

1471 (implied in pp. pulverizate), from L.L. pulverizare "reduce to powder or dust," from L. pulvis (gen. pulveris) "dust" (see pollen).

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