"pulverise" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pulverise.wav Forms: pulverises [present, singular, third-person], pulverising [participle, present], pulverised [participle, past], pulverised [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from French pulvériser, from Latin pulverizo, pulverizare, from pulvis (“powder”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|pulvériser}} French pulvériser, {{der|en|la|pulverizo|pulverizo, pulverizare}} Latin pulverizo, pulverizare Head templates: {{en-verb}} pulverise (third-person singular simple present pulverises, present participle pulverising, simple past and past participle pulverised)
  1. (transitive) To render into dust or powder. Tags: transitive Translations (intransitive: to be rendered into dust or powder): փոշիանալ (pʻošianal) (Armenian), разпрашавам се (razprašavam se) (Bulgarian), jauhautua (Finnish), hienontua (Finnish), obrócić się w proch [perfective] (Polish), превраща́ться в порошо́к (prevraščátʹsja v porošók) [imperfective] (Russian), บด (bòt) (Thai), บดเป็นผง (Thai), ภัสมธุลี (Thai) Translations (to render into dust or powder): فَتَّتَ (fattata) (Arabic), разпрашавам (razprašavam) (Bulgarian), 碾碎 (niǎnsuì) (Chinese Mandarin), 粉碎 (fěnsuì) (Chinese Mandarin), (yán) (Chinese Mandarin), fijnwrijven (Dutch), doen verstuiven (Dutch), vermorzelen (Dutch), jauhaa (Finnish), hienontaa (Finnish), pulvériser (French), დაფხვნა (dapxvna) (Georgian), დაფშვნა (dapšvna) (Georgian), pulverisieren (German), zerpulvern (German), 𐌳𐌹𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (diswinþjan) (Gothic), polverizzare (Italian), conterō (Latin), comminuo (Latin), (jī) (Literary Chinese), whakanehu (Maori), tāpā (english: refers to preparing soil) (Maori), tāpāpā (english: refers to preparing soil) (Maori), knokken (Middle English), pokruszyć [perfective] (Polish), pulverizar (Portuguese), pulveriza (Romanian), превраща́ть в порошо́к (prevraščátʹ v porošók) [imperfective] (Russian), meil (Scottish Gaelic), pulverizar (Spanish), polvorizar (Spanish), polvificar (Spanish), pulverisera (Swedish), บด (bòt) (Thai), บดเป็นผง (Thai), ภัสมธุลี (Thai), פּולוועריזירן (pulverizirn) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-pulverise-en-verb-yxq7qZ-C Disambiguation of 'intransitive: to be rendered into dust or powder': 62 9 10 20 Disambiguation of 'to render into dust or powder': 88 4 2 6
  2. (transitive) To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder. Tags: transitive Translations (to completely destroy): murskata (Finnish), გაცამტვერება (gacamṭvereba) (Georgian), განადგურება (ganadgureba) (Georgian), múr (Irish), púdraigh (Irish), whakanehu (Maori), дроби́ть (drobítʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), измельча́ть (izmelʹčátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), распыля́ть (raspyljátʹ) (english: water) [imperfective] (Russian), meil (Scottish Gaelic), บด (bòt) (Thai), ทำให้แหลก (Thai)
    Sense id: en-pulverise-en-verb-ksuVtlOW Disambiguation of 'to completely destroy': 3 91 5 1
  3. (transitive) To defeat soundly, thrash. Tags: transitive Translations (to defeat soundly): разбивам (razbivam) (Bulgarian), murskata (Finnish), დამარცხება (damarcxeba) (Georgian)
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  4. (intransitive) To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-pulverise-en-verb-ATsidQjV
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pulver [archaic], pulverize (english: American) Related terms: nebulize, vaporize

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "word": "obrócić się w proch"
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          "roman": "gacamṭvereba",
          "sense": "to completely destroy",
          "word": "გაცამტვერება"
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          "word": "განადგურება"
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          "sense": "to completely destroy",
          "word": "múr"
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          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to completely destroy",
          "word": "púdraigh"
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          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to completely destroy",
          "word": "whakanehu"
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          "roman": "drobítʹ",
          "sense": "to completely destroy",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "дроби́ть"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "izmelʹčátʹ",
          "sense": "to completely destroy",
          "tags": [
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          "sense": "to completely destroy",
          "word": "บด"
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          "lang": "Thai",
          "sense": "to completely destroy",
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      "word": "დაფხვნა"
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      "word": "დაფშვნა"
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      "sense": "to render into dust or powder",
      "word": "pulverizar"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "to render into dust or powder",
      "word": "polvorizar"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to render into dust or powder",
      "word": "polvificar"
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to render into dust or powder",
      "word": "pulverisera"
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      "roman": "bòt",
      "sense": "to render into dust or powder",
      "word": "บด"
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      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "to render into dust or powder",
      "word": "บดเป็นผง"
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      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "to render into dust or powder",
      "word": "ภัสมธุลี"
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      "roman": "pulverizirn",
      "sense": "to render into dust or powder",
      "word": "פּולוועריזירן"
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      "sense": "to completely destroy",
      "word": "murskata"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "gacamṭvereba",
      "sense": "to completely destroy",
      "word": "გაცამტვერება"
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      "roman": "ganadgureba",
      "sense": "to completely destroy",
      "word": "განადგურება"
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      "sense": "to completely destroy",
      "word": "múr"
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "to completely destroy",
      "word": "púdraigh"
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      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "to completely destroy",
      "word": "whakanehu"
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      "roman": "drobítʹ",
      "sense": "to completely destroy",
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      "word": "дроби́ть"
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      "roman": "izmelʹčátʹ",
      "sense": "to completely destroy",
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      "word": "измельча́ть"
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      "roman": "raspyljátʹ",
      "sense": "to completely destroy",
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      "word": "распыля́ть"
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      "sense": "to completely destroy",
      "word": "meil"
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      "roman": "bòt",
      "sense": "to completely destroy",
      "word": "บด"
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      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "to completely destroy",
      "word": "ทำให้แหลก"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razbivam",
      "sense": "to defeat soundly",
      "word": "разбивам"
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      "sense": "to defeat soundly",
      "word": "murskata"
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      "roman": "damarcxeba",
      "sense": "to defeat soundly",
      "word": "დამარცხება"
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      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "pʻošianal",
      "sense": "intransitive: to be rendered into dust or powder",
      "word": "փոշիանալ"
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razprašavam se",
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      "word": "разпрашавам се"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "intransitive: to be rendered into dust or powder",
      "word": "jauhautua"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "intransitive: to be rendered into dust or powder",
      "word": "hienontua"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "intransitive: to be rendered into dust or powder",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "obrócić się w proch"
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      "roman": "prevraščátʹsja v porošók",
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      "word": "превраща́ться в порошо́к"
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      "sense": "intransitive: to be rendered into dust or powder",
      "word": "บด"
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      "sense": "intransitive: to be rendered into dust or powder",
      "word": "บดเป็นผง"
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      "word": "ภัสมธุลี"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.