POWDERIZE Synonyms

• make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust

• destroy completely

• become powder or dust

• spray very finely

• strike at with firepower or bombs

• break up into small particles

• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

• leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

• a dense crowd of people

• temporary love of an adolescent

• the act of crushing

• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

• to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• break into small pieces

• humiliate or depress completely

• crush or bruise

• make ineffective

• become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure

• break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity

• cause to undergo fission or lose particles

• lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current

• a piece broken off or cut off of something else

• a broken piece of a brittle artifact

• an incomplete piece

• break or cause to break into pieces

• form into grains

• become granular

• form granulating tissue

• an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

• the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground

• hard monotonous routine work

• the act of grinding to a powder or dust

• press or grind with a crushing noise

• make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together

• work hard

• dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced

• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

• created by grinding

• shape or form by grinding

• a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

• Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)

• machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing

• English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

• the act of grinding to a powder or dust

• move about in a confused manner

• grind with a mill

• produce a ridge around the edge of

• roll out (metal) with a rolling machine

• break into many pieces

• damage or destroy

• cause to break into many pieces

• become powder or dust

• make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust

• a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized

• a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks

• any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a pulverized powder

• make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust

• apply powder to