Pulverise vs Disintegrate - What's the difference?
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To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.
To defeat soundly, thrash.
To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.
To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
* Kirwan
To fall apart, break up into parts.
In transitive terms the difference between pulverise and disintegrate
is that pulverise is to completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder while disintegrate is to undo the integrity of, break into parts.In intransitive terms the difference between pulverise and disintegrate
is that pulverise is to become reduced to powder; to fall to dust while disintegrate is to fall apart, break up into parts.pulverise
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Alternative forms
* pulverizeVerb
(en-verb)- the stone pulverises easily
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* British English formsdisintegrate
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Verb
(disintegrat)- Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.