Usually means: Reduce to fine particles; crush.
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  1. pulverise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pulverise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pulverise: Vocabulary.com
  4. pulverise: Wordnik
  5. pulverise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pulverise: Wiktionary
  7. pulverise: Dictionary.com
  8. pulverise: Rhymezone
  9. pulverise: Free Dictionary
  10. pulverise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. pulverise: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. pulverise: Legal dictionary

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  1. pulverise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. pulverise: Medical dictionary

(Note: See pulverises as well.)

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verb:  (transitive) To render into dust or powder.
verb:  (transitive) To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.
verb:  (transitive) To defeat soundly, thrash.
verb:  (intransitive) To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.

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