pulverate

English

Etymology

From Latin pulveratus, past participle of pulverare (“to pulverize”). See pulverize.

Verb

pulverate (third-person singular simple present pulverates, present participle pulverating, simple past and past participle pulverated)

1. (transitive) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverize.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pulverate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)