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pulverize

/puhl-vuh-rahyz/US // ˈpʌl vəˌraɪz //UK // (ˈpʌlvəˌraɪz) //

碾碎,碾压,粉碎,砸碎

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v.有主动词 verb
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    pul·ver·ized, pul·ver·iz·ing.

    • : to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
    • : to demolish or crush completely.
    • : Slang. to defeat, hurt badly, or, figuratively, render helpless: The Kid pulverized Jackson with a series of brutal lefts. He's a veteran nightclub comic who can pulverize any audience in seconds.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pul·ver·ized, pul·ver·iz·ing.

    • : to become reduced to dust.

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Examples

  • “These 110-story towers essentially got pulverized into small fragments,” says John Howard, a doctor and public health expert serving as administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program.

  • Court’s record is the only significant one Williams hasn’t matched or broken in a 26-year career in which she revolutionized women’s tennis with her powerful groundstrokes and pulverizing serve.

  • They grabbed the nearest nut and pulverized it in crunching staccato.

  • They envisioned an air war in which Britain's economic and technological superiority would slowly pulverize Germany.

  • Along the way, the GOP yearns to privatize and pulverize Medicare and Social Security.

  • Egypt has first-class F-16s that could pulverize any Libyan opposition.

  • If the ground is well burned it will be a little crusty and whitish, and will pulverize beautifully.

  • This is an esculent resembling arrowroot, which they dig, pulverize, and use as flour.

  • For his own use the farmer can pulverize smaller quantities by the simple method of pounding the flowers in a mortar.

  • He directs us to pulverize in a marble mortar one pound of sulphur, two of charcoal, and six of saltpetre.

  • For domestic uses, dry quickly, and pulverize, and put away in tight glass bottles.