PULVERIZING Synonyms: 179 Similar and Opposite Words

pulverizing

verb

present participle of pulverize

as in destroying

to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of buildings pulverized by a killer tornado

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as in grinding

to reduce to fine particles pulverize the cement into dust for reuse

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Recent Examples of pulverizing After pulverizing Gaza so relentlessly that a country founded in the shadow of the Holocaust was judged by experts as complicit in genocide, Israel’s military and intelligence apparatus also struck out elsewhere—Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Syria. —

Karl Vick, Time, 11 Oct. 2025 According to a new study, this effect is gradually pulverizing the asteroids that make up the belt. —

Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025 The ground game was pulverizing, as Hardy and Roberts turned defenders into trampolines all game long. —

Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2025 In sacrificing its global influence for the chance to spend the past year pulverizing the previously unheard-of city of Pokrovsk in the Donbas, Russia has proved not its resilience but its near irrelevance. —

Jeremy Shapiro, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025 Gently muddling the mint and lime and not pulverizing them preserves their flavor and keeps the drink crisp rather than bitter. —

Aly Walansky, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2025 That’s produced by removing the cacao bean shell after the bean has fermented and dried, and then using rollers to press out the fat in the bean – the cocoa butter – and pulverizing the remaining cocoa cakes into powder. —

Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2025

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Neighbors like Vetsch off Marion Road are convinced that's what hit their neighborhood, destroying multiple homes.

— Conor Wight, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
Voting out the party that has been destroying our country must be our only focus.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2026