verb
1.
to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to minute particles
pulverized the ore in a stamp mill
Synonyms: bray, buck, comminute, contriturate, crush, powder, triturate; compare shatter 1
Related Word: break up; abrade, grate, grind; crumble, crunch, mull; levigate; atomize, fragment, fragmentalize, fragmentize, micronize; beat, shatter, smash, smatter, splinter; flour, mill
2.
Synonyms: destroy 1, decimate, demolish, destruct, dynamite, rub out, ruin, shatter, tear down, wreck