pulverize
verb (used with object)
to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
pulverizes
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present tense formof pulverize (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In this recipe at Food & Wine, David Chang "pulverizes the kombu to a powder and blends it with softened butter to baste striped bass fillets."
From Salon ● May 14, 2024
And repeatedly charging and discharging the battery typically pulverizes the silicon, killing the battery.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 6, 2022
But in rare instances, “we have seen a failure mode where the core pulverizes and falls back into the hole.”
From Scientific American ● Aug. 12, 2021
The NFL doesn’t settle, at least not this soon; it pulverizes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2019
The soil plowed at this time and left rough is acted upon physically by frost which pulverizes it, and chemically by rain and air which renders plant food available.
From The First Book of Farming by Charles Landon Goodrich
