Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

Take of camphora 12 grains, pulverate it with a few drops of spir. vin. rect., add to it sulph. chin. 1 scruple, pulvis doveri 1/2 dram, mix and divide it into 9 doses, write on it: every 2 hours 1 dose.

It has rendered a service to viatecture which is far better than to pulverate and lift the road into clouds of dust, white-washing our countryside, and making its appearance hideous.

"I've been thinking,” Alix said slowly, “that we fight man's wars and pulverate his garbage and dehydrate his sewerage, but we're not citizens. Why, Manny?"

Have not we all seen the changed texture and productive quality of a weathered subsoil; seen the sterile clay from the deep drain moulder into manageable and wholesome soil under the culture of a single wintering: reminding us of the saying of Dr. Clarke, that "the frost is God's plough, which he drives through every inch of ground," pulverating and fructifying all ?

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

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

Plowing cost less than pulverating.

Word Forms

• pulverates
• pulverating
• pulverated
• more pulverate
• most pulverate

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When Should You Use Pulverate?

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