† atomizedadj.1
Obsolete. rare.
Existing in skeletal or outline form.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skeleton > [adjective]
atomizeda1628
skeleton1811
skeletal1854
skeletonian1879
skeletonic1880
skeletonized1976
a1628 F. Greville Treat. Humane Learning cxx, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 46 Through each profession of Humanity, Military, and mysteries Mechanicall: Whereby their abstract formes yet atomis'd, May be embodied; and by doing pris'd.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
atomizedadj.2
/ˈatəmʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈædəˌmaɪzd/ 1. Disunited, dissociated; esp. having lost social unity.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [adjective] > disunited or separated
disincorporate1605
dissolute1651
discorporate1833
atomized1848
1848 tr. J. M. von Radowitz in Times 14 Nov. 8/5 We are not assembled in order to unite atomized masses of hungry beings into arbitrary machineries.
1887 Polit. Sci. Q. 2 457 Society is atomized.
1928 A. A. Roback Psychol. of Char. (ed. 2) xv. 274 The experience is not the atomized laboratory experience but the complex experience of everyday life.
1949 I. Deutscher Stalin iv. 98 The atomized mass of Moslem labourers did not lend itself easily to propaganda or organization.
2003 Church Times 3 Jan. 14/4 This is a must-read for all who are interested in the mission of the Church within an increasingly atomised secular culture.
2. Reduced to a fine spray; (also, of a solid) reduced to minute particles.
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the world > matter > liquid > [adjective] > qualities of liquid > reduced to or consisting of fine particles
atomed1627
atomized1865
atomizing1867
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adjective] > incohesive > separating into small pieces > fragmented > into very small pieces
comminuted1725
atomized1958
1865 M. Mackenzie in Lancet 25 Feb. 202/2 (heading) On the treatment of chronic disease of the lungs by the inhalation of atomised liquids.
1926 Punch 26 May p. ix (advt.) An electro-vaporiser secures a perfectly atomised gas for starting.
1958 Gloss. Terms Powders (B.S.I.) 5 Atomized powder, (a) powder produced by the dispersion of molten metal or other material by spraying under conditions such that the material breaks down to powder, (b) powder produced by disintegration of a material through internal rupture caused by rapid change of external pressure.
1983 Times 28 Feb. 17/6 The Bootham system, which relies only on the addition of atomized water to get the consistency right for any of the recycled waste used.
2001 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 29 May C3/2 If the moisture content of the mixture is low, spray nozzles add finely atomised water.
3. colloquial. Damaged or destroyed by an atomic weapon. rare.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged > by bombs, etc.
bomb-battered1853
blitzed1941
bomb-pitted1943
bomb-damaged1945
bomb-shattered1945
atomized1946
war-damaged1946
1946 National Geographic Mag. Feb. 155 (caption) Atomized Hiroshima—Four Square Miles of the City Were Flattened by the World's First Atomic Bomb on Japan, August 6. 1945.
1950 G. Greene Third Man x. 95 Tainted, like the soil of an atomised town.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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