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Pulverise

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To render into dust or powder. transitive
  2. 2
    make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust wordnet
  3. 3
    To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder. transitive
  4. 4
    become powder or dust wordnet
  5. 5
    To defeat soundly, thrash. figuratively, transitive
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  1. 6
    destroy completely wordnet
  2. 7
    To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust. intransitive

    "the stone pulverises easily"

Etymology

From Middle English pulverizen, from Latin pulverizō, pulverizāre, from pulvis (“powder”). Compare French pulvériser. By surface analysis, pulver (“powder”) + -ise.

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