🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

pulverizar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pulverizar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
pulverize/ˈpʌlvəraɪz/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O grão de bico deve ser pulverizado para fazer a farinha."

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1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To reduce to fine particles; to crush or grind completely.

    "The machine can pulverize rocks into fine dust."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

From Late Latin pulverizare, from Latin pulvis (genitive pulveris) meaning 'dust'.

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