Synonyms of pulverizing

pulverizing

verb

present participle of pulverize

1

as in destroying

to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of

buildings pulverized by a killer tornado

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destroying
• demolishing
• shattering
• ruining
• wrecking
• devastating
• smashing
• overcoming
• damaging
• wasting
• annihilating
• vaporizing
• crushing
• eroding
• decimating
• extinguishing
• razing
• creaming
• ravaging
• marring
• blasting
• dismantling
• crippling
• totaling
• killing
• tearing down
• nuking
• defeating
• pulling down
• removing
• breaking
• wracking
• doing in
• subduing
• desolating
• injuring
• disintegrating
• conquering
• dissolving
• whipping
• licking
• trimming
• rubbing out
• mastering
• mutilating
• clobbering
• thrashing
• spoiling
• impairing
• deteriorating
• surmounting
• dynamiting
• mangling
• beating
• routing
• harming
• walloping
• disfiguring
• prevailing (over)
• obliterating
• eradicating
• winning (against)
• slaughtering
• defacing
• scouring
• wearing (away)
• besting
• gutting
• vitiating
• disassembling
• trouncing
• triumphing (over)
• sweeping (away)
• undoing
• trampling
• plundering
• murdering
• exterminating
• assassinating
• executing
• sacking
• extirpating
• expunging
• overmatching
• vandalizing
• liquidating
• blowing up
• washing out
• scotching
• looting
• drubbing
• despoiling
• wiping out
• pillaging
• slaying
• massacring
• dispatching
• taking down
• trashing
• overbearing
• effacing
• cutting down
• stamping (out)
• zapping
• butchering
• blotting out
• unmaking
• rooting (out)
• felling
• skunking
• killing off
• unbuilding
• dilapidating
• snuffing (out)
• mowing (down)
• taking out
• havocking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• building
• constructing
• raising
• erecting
• creating
• repairing
• rearing
• fixing
• producing
• setting up
• making
• forming
• shaping
• assembling
• putting up
• manufacturing
• establishing
• inventing
• forging
• organizing
• molding
• protecting
• fashioning
• reconditioning
• fabricating
• constituting
• framing
• preserving
• patching
• revamping
• saving
• mending
• instituting
• bringing about
• doctoring
• founding
• conserving
• reconstructing
• restoring
• rebuilding
• remodeling
• fathering
• renovating

2

as in grinding

to reduce to fine particles

pulverize the cement into dust for reuse

Synonyms & Similar Words

• grinding
• crushing
• pounding
• beating
• disintegrating
• powdering
• milling
• comminuting
• atomizing
• crumbling
• smashing
• braying
• mulling
• grating
• shattering
• fracturing
• breaking
• crunching
• fragmenting
• splintering
• dashing
• busting
• kibbling
• micronizing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pulverizing

The garbanzos are sometimes roasted before pulverizing, lending the yellow powder a richer, nuttier taste. — Randi Gollin, Martha Stewart, 25 June 2026

But the biggest beef to be had is in Sarnoski’s insistence to bludgeon us with pulverizing violence, which grows tiresome and repetitive in the carnage-spewing initial 30 minutes. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 June 2026

No previous American leader could plausibly have presided over the scene of a tattooed Brazilian fighter in a black cowboy hat and Lycra shorts running out of the White House, saluted by honor guards, with the intent of pulverizing another human being. — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026

Among other curiosities were Matthew Howard and Joseph Pereira cheerfully pulverizing Philip Glass’ Fantasy Concerto for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, as well as Boris Allakhverdyan suavely ghosting jazz legend Artie Shaw in his Clarinet Concerto. — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026

The war film is also his sweetest, most tender effort to date, surprising given his penchant for emotionally pulverizing twists and turns. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026

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