Meaning

1 senses

  1. American and Oxford British spelling of pulverise.

More definitions
  • become powder or dust
  • destroy completely
  • make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Ziri pulverized the strawberry tree fruits to make a juice out of them.

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  2. If an aircraft carrier is directly hit by a tactical nuclear weapon, it would be pulverized.

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Forms

pulverizes, pulverizing, pulverized, pulverized
Base formpulverize · to pulverize
3rd person singularpulverizes
Present participlepulverizing
Past simplepulverized
Past participlepulverized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypulverize
he, she, itpulverizes

Past simpleLesson

all personspulverized

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pulverize

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words
Relatedpulverization
Derivedcryopulverizemarmalizemicropulverizemurdelizepulverizablepulverized sugarpulverizerrepulverize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pulsarpulsatepulseB2pumapumicepummel
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