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pulverizepul‧ver‧ize (also pulverise British English) /ˈpʌlvəraɪz/ verb [transitive] pulverizeOrigin: 1400-1500 French pulvériser, from Late Latin pulverizare, from Latin pulvis ‘dust, powder’ VERB TABLEpulverize |
Present | I, you, we, they | pulverize | | he, she, it | pulverizes | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | pulverized | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have pulverized | | he, she, it | has pulverized | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had pulverized | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will pulverize | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have pulverized |
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Present | I | am pulverizing | | he, she, it | is pulverizing | | you, we, they | are pulverizing | Past | I, he, she, it | was pulverizing | | you, we, they | were pulverizing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been pulverizing | | he, she, it | has been pulverizing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been pulverizing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be pulverizing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been pulverizing |
- A towering red mist hung over them where the brick of the villages was pulverized by the bombardment.
- Destroy the skeleton, pulverize the bones.
- Gladstone had recommended chewing each bite thirty-two times, so Fletcher chewed every mouthful of food until it was pulverized into liquid.
- He has just been pulverized by a being from the other side of the galaxy and what does he do?
- He sued her even before she pulverized him in print.
- The country, not surprisingly, preferred to wait to be persuaded rather than get pulverized in a partisan putsch.
1to crush something into a powder: The seeds can be used whole or pulverized into flour.GRAMMAR Pulverize is usually passive in this meaning.2informal to completely defeat someone: Stewart completely pulverized the opposition.—pulverized adjective: pulverized coal—pulverization /ˌpʌlvəraɪˈzeɪʃən $ -rə-/ noun [uncountable] |