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PULVERIZE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust

Example:

pulverize the grains

Synonyms:

powder; powderise; powderize; pulverise; pulverize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "pulverize" is one way to...):

disintegrate (break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity)

Verb group:

powderise; powderize; pulverise; pulverize (become powder or dust)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

pulverization (the act of grinding to a powder or dust)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become powder or dust

Example:

When it was blown up, the building powderized

Synonyms:

powderise; powderize; pulverise; pulverize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "pulverize" is one way to...):

disintegrate (break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity)

Verb group:

powder; powderise; powderize; pulverise; pulverize (make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

pulverization (a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Destroy completely

Example:

the wrecking ball demolished the building

Synonyms:

demolish; pulverise; pulverize

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "pulverize" is one way to...):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

pulverization (annihilation by pulverizing something)

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