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Pulverize

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.

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Powder 84% connected

The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.

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Powder 84% connected

The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.

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Destroy 76% connected

To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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Destruct 76% connected

To destroy.

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Disintegrate 76% connected

To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, fros…

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Pulverization 74% connected

The action of reducing to dust or powder.

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Pulverization 74% connected

The action of reducing to dust or powder.

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Demolish 92% connected

To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Powder 92% connected

The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Alcoholize verb · 78% connection

To reduce to a fine powder.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduce, fine, powder, dust, beating.
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Asperse verb · 78% connection

To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.

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Bastinado noun · 78% connection

A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating…

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Bole noun · 78% connection

Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and…

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Calcine verb · 78% connection

To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid…

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Cementation noun · 78% connection

A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not suffic…

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Comminute verb · 78% connection

To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminut…

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Crush verb · 78% connection

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

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Drumming noun · 78% connection

The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wi…

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Dust noun · 78% connection

Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too…

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Dusty superl. · 78% connection

Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.

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Emery noun · 78% connection

Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more…

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Equate verb · 78% connection

To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison;…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reduce, fine, powder, dust, beating.
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Friable adjective · 78% connection

Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.

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Glaucous adjective · 78% connection

Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf.

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Gold verb · 78% connection

A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yello…

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Gristmill noun · 78% connection

A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.

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Into preposition · 78% connection

Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others w…

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