pulverate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise. transitive
    — 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.
  2. To break up soil or organic matter into a fine, powdery texture, often by means of a special plow. ambitransitive
    — 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 ?
  3. To crush or subdue; to overwhelm. figuratively,transitive
    — 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».
  4. To take a dust bath. intransitive
    — 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.
  5. 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. 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 .

词形变化

pulverates present,singular,third-person pulverating participle,present pulverated participle,past pulverated past pulverates plural more pulverate comparative most pulverate superlative

词源

词源 1
From Latin pulveratus, past participle of pulverare (“to pulverize”). See pulverize. By surface analysis, pulver + -ate.
词源 2
From Latin pulveratus, past participle of pulverare (“to pulverize”). See pulverize. By surface analysis, pulver + -ate.
词源 3
From Latin pulveratus, past participle of pulverare (“to pulverize”). See pulverize. By surface analysis, pulver + -ate.
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