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Verb: pulverise  'púl-vu,rIz
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: pulverize)
  1. Make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
    "pulverise the grains";
    - powderize, powderise [Brit], powder, pulverize
     
  2. Severely damage or destroy
    "artillery pulverised the town";
    - demolish, pulverize
     
  3. [Brit, informal] Defeat soundly and humiliatingly
    "The home team pulverised the visitors";
    - demolish [informal], destroy, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], pulverize [Brit, informal], annihilate [informal]

Derived forms: pulverised, pulverising, pulverises

Type of: defeat, destroy, destruct, disintegrate, get the better of, overcome, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], uncreate [literary]