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What (who) is Pulverize - definition
pulverize
or pulverise
¦ verb
1. reduce to fine particles.
2. informal defeat utterly.
Derivatives
pulverization noun
pulverizer noun
Origin
ME: from late L. pulverizare, from pulvis, pulver- 'dust'.
Pulverize
·vi To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust; as, the stone pulverizes easily.
II. Pulverize ·vt To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.
pulverize
v. a.
Triturate, comminute, bruise, grind, bray, levigate, reduce to powder, pulverate.
Examples of use of Pulverize
1. Several crushing machines pulverize the rock into sand, then powerful acids extract the traces of uranium.
2. Our forefathers employed the sun to heat water and the wind to turn turbines that pulverize grain.
3. The noisy attempts made at the start of the terrorism war to pulverize the legitimacy, and consequently the motivation, of the fighters and to add them to the tribe of evaders did not succeed.
4. In January, China launched a ground–based ballistic missile to pulverize one of its own weather satellites about 537 miles above the Earth in a demonstration of its ability to attack low–orbit satellites.
5. The action taken by the Japanese reactionaries to pulverize and dispose of the remains of the above–said victims is aimed to cover up the crimes perpetrated by the Japanese imperialists in the past and evade compensation for them.