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Meanings of pulverise in English

Portuguese
destruir
Catalan
enderrocar
Spanish
derribar

Make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust.

        destruir
        Usage of pulverise in English
        1
        Our hideous bodies pulverise that strength, horrifying the strong into letting go.'
        The Pilo Family Circus
        2
        The hand can bear, without inconvenience, a sand-shower which would pulverise glass.
        Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
        3
        The motors are even tough enough to pulverise frozen fruit to a sorbet.
        The Daily Telegraph
        4
        He says the mills of the gods grind slowly, but they pulverise middling fine.
        Remarks
        5
        Enough earth to pulverise and drown and bury us all.
        Sharper than a serpent's tooth
        6
        Add the remaining ingredients and pulverise until fine.
        News.com.au
        7
        See, I will pulverise one with my heel.
        The Albert Gate Mystery / Being Further Adventures of Reginald B...
        8
        Mix all this together and pulverise it thoroughly in a marble mortar with a wooden pestle.
        The Guardian
        9
        Ineos may feel robbed of a further opportunity because Bernal looked set to pulverise the overall standings.
        The South African
        10
        Nobody who watched him pulverise Murray in the final set would have ever been in any doubt.
        The Guardian
        11
        There is a general assumption that Taylor will pulverise all comers en route to certain Olympic gold.
        The Irish Times
        12
        The bursting of the bombs would pulverise these shells into a fine, pervasive and strongly radioactive dust.
        Level 7
        13
        Such a bail-in would pulverise confidence.
        Reuters
        14
        Don't pulverise me with sarcasms, please!
        The Great Amulet
        15
        O'Connell went on to pulverise Kylie Fulmer in a fight that was stopped by the referee in the seventh round.
        News.com.au
        16
        High explosive of the kind the Germans use will pulverise the parapet of a trench and kill every one within reach.
        On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles
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        Pulverise through the time