pulverize

  • 61pestled — pes·tle || pesl ,pestl n. muller, stick used for grinding with a mortar; any tool used to crush or pulverize materials v. crush, pulverize; grind …

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  • 62pestles — pes·tle || pesl ,pestl n. muller, stick used for grinding with a mortar; any tool used to crush or pulverize materials v. crush, pulverize; grind …

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  • 63pestling — pes·tle || pesl ,pestl n. muller, stick used for grinding with a mortar; any tool used to crush or pulverize materials v. crush, pulverize; grind …

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  • 64crush — 1. verb 1) essential oils are released when the herbs are crushed Syn: squash, squeeze, press, pulp, mash, mangle, pulverize 2) your dress will get crushed Syn: crease, crumple, rumple …

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  • 65grind — [n] tedious job chore, drudgery, groove*, grubwork*, hard work, labor, moil, pace, rote, routine, rut*, sweat*, task, toil, travail, treadmill*; concept 362 grind [v1] crush, pulverize abrade, atomize, attenuate, beat, bray, chop up, comminute,… …

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  • 66ter-3, terǝ- and teri-, trī- —     ter 3, terǝ and teri , trī     English meaning: to rub     Deutsche Übersetzung: “reiben; drehend reiben” (from which “drehen”), “(reibend) durchbohren”     Note: also teru : treu (extended with b, g, gh, ĝh, k, p); here ter 2 “tender” (eig …

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  • 67pollen — [16] Pollen originally meant ‘flour’ in English. Not until the 18th century was it taken up as a botanical term. It was borrowed from Latin pollen ‘powder, dust, flour’, a relative of pulvis ‘dust’ (source of English powder and pulverize) and… …

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  • 68powder — [13] The ultimate ancestor of powder is Latin pulvis ‘dust’ (source also of English pulverize [16]). This was related to Latin pollen ‘fine flour’ (source of English pollen), Latin puls ‘gruel’ (source of English poultice and pulse ‘legume’), and …

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  • 69pulse — English has two separate words pulse. The older, ‘seeds of beans, lentils, etc’ [13], comes via Old French pols from Latin puls ‘thick gruel (often made from beans and the like)’. This was a relative of Latin pollen ‘flour’ (source of English… …

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  • 70grind — [grīnd] vt. ground, grinding [ME grinden < OE grindan < IE * ghrendh < base * ghren , to rub away, pulverize > GROUND1] 1. a) to crush into bits or fine particles between two hard surfaces; pulverize b) to chop into small pieces or… …

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