PULVERIZE

v. 1 powder, comminute, grind, crush, mill, granulate, crumble, break up, bray, pound, Technical triturate, levigate This machine pulverizes the rock, after which the binding agents are added 2 devastate, destroy, demolish, crush, smash, shatter, ruin, wreck, annihilate The four battalions were pulverized in the attack