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atomize, v.|ˈætəmaɪz|
[f. atom n. + -ize.]
†1. intr. To hold the doctrines of the atomic philosophy. Obs.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §26 Other ancient Atomists did Atomize as well as he but they did not atheize.
2. a. trans. To reduce to atoms, or to an atom; to belittle.
1845Mozley Blanco White Ess. 1878 II. 130 Strange and melancholy is the idea that atomises truth.
b. To reduce (a liquid) to very small particles or to the condition of spray.
1865Lancet 25 Feb. 203/2 He believed that atomising the fluids was unnecessary, on the ground that they could be introduced in the simplest manner by ordinary inhalation. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 646/2 Utilizing the waste product [of petroleum] as fuel by spraying or atomizing it with steam.
3. To damage or destroy with an atomic weapon. colloq.
1945Daily Mirror 11 Aug. 1/3 Nagasaki, the second..Japanese city to be ‘atomised’. 1961A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo ii. 90 Poor old Rackham's looking quite down in the mouth now that we aren't all going to be atomized into eternity. |