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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pulverize .
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- adjective consisting of fine particles
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Examples
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There is a reddish mist above the impact where the paint is simply pulverized from the sled and the car into a reddish mist.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Have I mentioned how much I love Mythbusters lately? 2009
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Whereupon the leech bedusted him with a little, I know not what, sort of powder, which rendered him a fool immediately, so great was the stultificating virtue of that strange kind of pulverized dose.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Whereupon the leech bedusted him with a little, I know not what, sort of powder, which rendered him a fool immediately, so great was the stultificating virtue of that strange kind of pulverized dose.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It seemed to Jefferson that the powerful arguments of Roane completely "pulverized" every word which had been uttered by John Marshall.
Union and Democracy Allen Johnson 1900
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The whole idea is absurd: as Ney himself said at his trial, they would have "pulverized" him.
The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836
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G. Thats the actual meaning of the word "pulverized"
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Whereupon the leech bedusted him with a little, I know not what, sort of powder, which rendered him a fool immediately, so great was the stultificating virtue of that strange kind of pulverized dose.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Nevertheless, the left was "pulverized," and people "went off and became religious, or they became their own opposites and became very energetic businessmen, or they had very bad breakdowns.
Provocateur Emily Parker 2008
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It is the world's biggest miner of pulverized coking coal, used as a low-cost input in steel making.
Macarthur Rejects Higher Bid From Peabody, Arcelor David Winning 2011
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Within a very short period of time the entire lower Khumbu Icefall was enveloped in pulverized ice and snow.
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