Usually means: Reduce to fine particles; crush.
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  1. pulverate: Wordnik
  2. pulverate: Wiktionary
  3. Pulverate: Dictionary.com
  4. Pulverate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. pulverate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Pulverate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. pulverate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. pulverate: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Pulverate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pulverate: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (pulverate)

verb:  (transitive) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.
verb:  (ambitransitive, agriculture) To break up soil or organic matter into a fine, powdery texture, often by means of a special plow.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To crush or subdue; to overwhelm.
verb:  (intransitive, of birds) To take a dust bath.
verb:  To be powdery or granular.
noun:  A powdered preparation of some substance.
adjective:  Having a powdery or granular texture;

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