Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To reduce to powder

    become powder or dust

  2. (intransitive)To be reduced to powder

Origin

From powder + -ize.

From powder + -ize.

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Forms

powderizes, powderizing, powderized, powderized
Base formpowderize · to powderize
3rd person singularpowderizes
Present participlepowderizing
Past simplepowderized
Past participlepowderized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypowderize
he, she, itpowderizes

Past simpleLesson

all personspowderized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave powderized
he, she, ithas powderized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill powderize

Synonyms

4 synonyms
reduce to powder:pulverize
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Relatedpowderizationpowder
Derivedpowderizer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
powpowderB1powerA2
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