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1. Destroy completely
   "the wrecking ball pulverised the building";
   - demolish, pulverize
    
2. Become powder or dust
   "When it was blown up, the building pulverised";
   - powderize, pulverize, powderise [Brit]
    
3. Make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
   "pulverise the grains";
   - powderize, powderise [Brit], powder, pulverize

Derived forms: pulverising, pulverises, pulverised

Type of: destroy, destruct, disintegrate, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], uncreate [literary]