| 单词 | pulverize |
| 释义 | pulverize (once / 4676 pages) v When you pulverize something, you break it up until it becomes dust or powder. You might pulverize coffee beans in grinder, running it until the coffee turns to powder. Pulvis is the Latin word for "dust." When something is turned into dust, often it becomes useless. That's why pulverize can also mean "to destroy or demolish." Construction crews pulverize a building using wrecking balls and sometimes even explosives. The materials left behind are broken into such small parts that they can't be salvaged for other uses. WORD FAMILYpulverize: pulverization, pulverized, pulverizes, pulverizing+/pulverization: pulverizations USAGE EXAMPLESHe was a player with vision, grit and a shot that would pulverize goalies, although that wasn’t the only way he hurt opponents. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) She invited current and past co-workers to her garage to pulverize items she had collected from the curbs in her neighborhood. New York Times(Nov 26, 2016) Mr. Muldoon uses anaphora — the repeated use of the word “every” — to pulverizing effect. New York Times(Nov 22, 2016) 1v make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust pulverize the grains Syn|Hyper powder, powderise, powderize, pulverise powderise, powderize, pulverise become powder or dust disintegrate break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity 2v become powder or dust Syn|Hyper powderise, powderize, pulverise powder, powderise, powderize, pulverise make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust disintegrate break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity 3v destroy completely pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand Syn|Hyper demolish, pulverise destroy, destruct do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of |
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