PULVERISE Synonyms

• destroy completely

• ruin or destroy

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• defeat soundly and humiliatingly

• kill in large numbers

• 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

• do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

• destroy completely; damage irreparably

• defeat soundly and humiliatingly

• put (an animal) to death

• 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

• 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

• break into many pieces

• damage or destroy

• cause to break into many pieces

• a vigorous blow

• a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)

• a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head

• the act of colliding with something

• a conspicuous success

• with a loud crash

• hit with great force

• break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over

• reduce to bankruptcy

• hit violently

• humiliate or depress completely

• damage or destroy as if by violence

• hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke

• collide or strike violently and suddenly

• overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)

• break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow

• something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation

• an accident that destroys a ship at sea

• a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

• a ship that has been destroyed at sea

• smash or break forcefully

• become powder or dust

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

• 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