transitive. To reduce to small particles or powder by crushing between two hard surfaces; esp. to make (grain) into meal or flour in a mill…

transitive. To pound.

transitive. To crush, to grind. Obsolete.

transitive. To break down and crush by beating, with or as with a pestle; to reduce to a pulp or powder; to pulverize. In quot. 1825 at sense with up.

transitive. To bray in a mortar; to beat to a pulp or powder; to pound. Also absol. Obsolete.

transitive. To pound to pieces.

transitive. To grind or break down (esp. a foodstuff) completely or partially with a pestle, millstone, or other implement; to pound, to crush…

transitive. To break up into powder or parts. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To beat small; to bruise, pound, crush to powder; usually in a mortar.

transitive. To grind to dust.

To make into a powder, or paste, by repeated blows; to pound, pulverize. Generally with a word or phrase as complement.

In culinary and pharmaceutical use: To reduce to small particles by rasping or rubbing against a rough or indented surface; to pulverize by means of…

transitive. To grind to powder, pulverize; to crumble. Cf. mool, v. 1. Now chiefly English regional (northern).

transitive. To beat, pound, or grind with or as with a pestle. Also in extended use.

transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To strike repeatedly with hard blows; to batter; to damage. Also figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To bruise, crush, or pulverize by blows. Obsolete.

To pound, beat small, bray, crush, bruise.

transitive. = pound, v.1 1.

transitive. To grind by pressing on (something placed below).

transitive. To dissolve into dust.

transitive. To pound, to batter; to strike or beat with repeated blows; to thrash; to pelt; †to strike down (obsolete). Cf. pell, v. 2.

transitive. To reduce (solids) to minute particles; to break, crush, or grind to small fragments or to powder; to pulverize, triturate.

transitive. To reduce to atoms, to atomize.

transitive. = comminute, v.

transitive. To grind to a fine powder, esp. on a slab of porphyry.

? To crush, pulverize (marl, etc. for spreading over land, road-material); to fill up the ruts in (a road) with crushed stones, etc. Also to stub in…

transitive. To bruise or grind coarsely; to crush into small pieces. Also absol.

transitive. To mash or crush.

transitive. To break or crush (corn, etc.) into small pieces. U.S.

transitive. humorous To bring into or to a state or condition by punning. rare.

transitive. To grind into very fine particles.