Sekirov Dictionary

pulverate

verb 5
adjective 1
noun 1
forms 5

verb5

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To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.
- 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. — 1657
•
To break up soil or organic matter into a fine, powdery texture, often by means of a special plow.
- […]shows a field of standing corn stalks being "pulverated" into a finished seedbed in one operation. — 1928
•
(figurative) To crush or subdue; to overwhelm.
- Old sleeping bag, cold floor, pulverated heart. — 2009
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To be powdery or granular.
- Considerably quantities of pulverating feldspar are found on the rising ground, washed by the rains, near the Guapo mouth and on its left banks. — 1836
To take a dust bath.

adjective1

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Having a powdery or granular texture;
- interior tube extends until its diameter attains the size of the interior peridium . It is constant yellowish white , pulverate . — 1878

noun1

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A powdered preparation of some substance.
- From 1957, aerial dusting was widely applied, water reservoirs were treated with 12% gammexane (hexachlorocyclohexane) pulverate and large areas were smoked with NBC smoke generators. — 1960

forms

pulverated · pulverating · pulverates · more pulverate · most pulverate

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