"Bulverize" meaning in All languages combined

See Bulverize on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: Bulverizes [present, singular, third-person], Bulverizing [participle, present], Bulverized [participle, past], Bulverized [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} Bulverize (third-person singular simple present Bulverizes, present participle Bulverizing, simple past and past participle Bulverized)
  1. (transitive) To subject (an opponent) in a debate) to Bulverism ("a rhetorical fallacy in which a speaker assumes that their opponent's argument is wrong, and instead of disproving it, condescendingly explains why their opponent would have come to that conclusion"). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-Bulverize-en-verb-Rezj~Zch Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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