| 释义 | pulverizepul‧ver‧ize (also pulverise British English) /ˈpʌlvəraɪz/ verb [transitive]    pulverizeOrigin:1400-1500 French pulvériser, from Late Latin pulverizare, from Latin pulvis  ‘dust, powder’ VERB TABLEpulverize |
 | Present | I, you, we, they | pulverize |  |  | he, she, it | pulverizes |  | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | pulverized |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have pulverized |  |  | he, she, it | has pulverized |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had pulverized |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will pulverize |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have pulverized | 
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 | Present | I | am pulverizing |  |  | he, she, it | is pulverizing |  |  | you, we, they | are pulverizing |  | Past | I, he, she, it | was pulverizing |  |  | you, we, they | were pulverizing |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been pulverizing |  |  | he, she, it | has been pulverizing |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been pulverizing |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be pulverizing |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been pulverizing | 
1to crush something into a powder:A towering red mist hung over them where the brick of the villages was pulverized by the bombardment.Destroy the skeleton, pulverize the bones.Gladstone had recommended chewing each bite thirty-two times, so Fletcher chewed every mouthful of food until it was pulverized into liquid.He has just been pulverized by a being from the other side of the galaxy and what does he do?He sued her even before she pulverized him in print.The country, not surprisingly, preferred to wait to be persuaded rather than get pulverized in a partisan putsch.
 The seeds can be used whole or pulverized into flour.GRAMMAR Pulverize is usually passive in this meaning.2informal to completely defeat someone:  Stewart completely pulverized the opposition.—pulverized adjective:  pulverized coal—pulverization /ˌpʌlvəraɪˈzeɪʃən $ -rə-/ noun [uncountable] |