Word Meanings - PULVERIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PULVERIZE)

• Bray
• Pound
• bruise
• beat
• pulverize
• Crumble
• Disintegrate
• triturate
• Levigate
• Comminute
• smooth
• polish
• plane
• Beat

Related words: (words related to PULVERIZE)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• POUNDCAKE
  A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• POUND
  1. To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks. Dryden. 2. To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as,
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• POUNDER
  1. One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill. 2. An instrument used for pounding; a pestle. 3. A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• PULVERIZER
  One who, or that which, pulverizes.
• POUNDING
  1. The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating. 2. A pounded or pulverized substance. "Covered with the poundings of these rocks." J. S. Blackie.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• TEN-POUNDER
  A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
• ASSAY POUND
  A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
• IMPOUNDER
  One who impounds.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• MISEXPOUND
  To expound erroneously.
• IMPOUNDAGE
  1. The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded. 2. The fee or fine for impounding.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.