pulverise
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from French pulvériser, from Latin pulverizo, from pulvis ("powder").
Verbpulverise (pulverises, present participle pulverising; simple past and past participle pulverised)
- (transitive) To render into dust or powder.
- (transitive) To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.
- (transitive) To defeat soundly, thrash.
- (intransitive) To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.
- the stone pulverises easily
- pulver (archaic)
- French: pulvériser
- German: pulverisieren, zerpulvern
- Italian: polverizzare
- Portuguese: pulverizar
- Russian: превращать в порошок
- Spanish: pulverizar
- Russian: дроби́ть
- Russian: превращаться в порошок
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