pulverises

The article calls it pulverisation, which has a similar meaning to atomisation but can also commonly mean grinding or pounding, as in food preparation when one pulverises grains, herbs, or meat.

The atomic theory of sub-headings 2009

Nicole Brenez: The brilliant work of Peter Lorrimer Whitehead, full of an incomparable energy, pulverises the false barriers between formal research, documentary reportage, psychedelic cinema, cinéma engagé, pop cinema and auteur cinema ....

GreenCine Daily: Rouge. 10. 2007

The moral greys and soul searching are gone, replaced by sequence after sequence where the Hulk shrugs off bullets and pulverises vehicles.

The Incredible Hulk Greg Tannahill 2008

If the cacao is not sufficiently exposed to the sun, it becomes mouldy; if too much, it withers, and easily pulverises -- in either case it soon rots.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

It decomposes and pulverises every change and every phenomenon, until it finds the invariable element in them.

A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912

Oh brother, that one question, pushed to its issues, condemns the wisdom of this world as folly, and pulverises into nothingness millions of active lives and successful schemes.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

With one crushing blow Paul pulverises the fair fanes around him, and declares that sacrifice, as practised there, contradicted the plain truth as to

Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868

It resembles a coarse gravel, each pebble being often as large as a walnut, and tuberculated on the surface: it binds admirably, and forms excellent roads, but pulverises into a most disagreeable impalpable dust.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

It's hard to take seriously Boulez's claim that his Second Piano Sonata "pulverises" the traditional classical forms, when the splintered nature of the music makes it impossible to discern the forms in the first place.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Ivan Hewett 2011

The Killer Inside Me, in which Affleck stars as a psychotic sheriff who brutally pulverises two women, has caused outrage.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010