pulverate

To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.

Pulverate and mix them with Turpentine; then put them in a glass Alembick, and adde to them Camphyr, and Amber-grise, of each 3 ij.

Take of camphora 12 grains, pulverate it with a few drops of spir. vin. rect., add to it sulph. chin. 1 scruple, pulvis doveri 1/2 dram, mix and divide it into 9 doses, write on it: every 2 hours 1 dose.

To break up soil or organic matter into a fine, powdery texture, often by means of a special plow.

Have not we all seen the changed texture and productive quality of a weathered subsoil; seen the sterile clay from the deep drain moulder into manageable and wholesome soil under the culture of a single wintering: reminding us of the saying of Dr. Clarke, that "the frost is God's plough, which he drives through every inch of ground," pulverating and fructifying all ?

[…]shows a field of standing corn stalks being "pulverated" into a finished seedbed in one operation.

To crush or subdue; to overwhelm.

This subordination of the life to the ideal constitutes the vigorous foundation of his mannish personality. Mousinho's pulverating vocation can be summed up in the following word of immense meaning : «Serving».

Old sleeping bag, cold floor, pulverated heart.

To take a dust bath.

If the cock be observed to scrape straw together, and rub himself in it, it is no more than what cocks and hens continually do, in heaps of dust, &c., when they have no thought of incubation, but merely from their pulverating instinct.

It is thus we can account for the fact, that whilst these are the most pulverating of birds, continually filling their feathers with dry earth, in order to destroy the vermin which annoy them, those quadrupends similarly roll themselves in the dust, for the sake of ridding themselves of similar enemies picked up in the same situations.

To be powdery or granular.

Considerably quantities of pulverating feldspar are found on the rising ground, washed by the rains, near the Guapo mouth and on its left banks.

Coppery grey above, uniform or with three or five longitudinal series of blackish dots or elongate quadrangular spots; lower surfaces more or less marbled or pulverated with grey.

A powdered preparation of some substance.

From 1957, aerial dusting was widely applied, water reservoirs were treated with 12% gammexane (hexachlorocyclohexane) pulverate and large areas were smoked with NBC smoke generators.

Soy flour, its defatted form and except for its fiber content, has more resemblance in physical and chemical properties to nonfat dry milk solids, and more properly might be called "defatted soy solids," or "soy powder," or "soy pulverate;" however, the defatted soy flour has nearly 20% more protein than the nonfat milk solids .

Having a powdery or granular texture;

interior tube extends until its diameter attains the size of the interior peridium . It is constant yellowish white , pulverate .

of the lower plane suberect, imbricate, ovate, acuminate, keeled, piloso-denticulate; macrospores whitish with yellow contents, pulverate, soon smooth;