Pulverate

Quick meaning: Pulverate is a verb meaning (transitive) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.

Meaning

(transitive) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, agriculture) To break up soil or organic matter into a fine, powdery texture, often by means of a special plow.
2. (transitive, figurative) To crush or subdue; to overwhelm.
3. (intransitive, of birds) To take a dust bath.
4. To be powdery or granular.
5. A powdered preparation of some substance.
6. Having a powdery or granular texture;

Example Sentences

Plowing cost less than pulverating.

Pulverating tough sod — making a finished seedbed, ready for planting, in one operation.

[…]shows a field of standing corn stalks being "pulverated" into a finished seedbed in one operation.

Pulverate and mix them with Turpentine; then put them in a glass Alembick, and adde to them Camphyr, and Amber-grise, of each 3 ij.

Word Forms

• pulverates
• pulverating
• pulverated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pulverise, pulver, pulverize, powder, dust, powderize.

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