pulverise.
To render into dust or powder.
Meaning & usage
To render into dust or powder.
To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.
To defeat soundly, thrash.
To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.
the stone pulverises easily
Where this word comes from
From Middle English pulverizen, from Latin pulverizō, pulverizāre, from pulvis (“powder”). Compare French pulvériser. By surface analysis, pulver (“powder”) + -ise.
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