Pulverize vs Bray - What's the difference?

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Pulverize is a related term of bray.

As a verb pulverize

is (american spelling).

As a proper noun bray is

pulverize

English

Alternative forms

* pulverise

Verb

(pulveriz)

(American spelling)

bray

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) braire, from ).

Verb

(en verb)

Of a donkey, to make its cry.

Whenever I walked by, that donkey brayed at me.

Of a camel, to make its cry.

To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.

He threw back his head and brayed with laughter.

To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.

* Milton

Arms on armour clashing, brayed / Horrible discord.

* Sir Walter Scott

And varying notes the war pipes brayed .

* Gray

Heard ye the din of battle bray ?

Noun

(en noun)

The cry of an ass or donkey.

The cry of a camel

Any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.

* Jerrold

The bray and roar of multitudinous London.

Synonyms

* hee-haw

Etymology 2

From (etyl) breier (Modern French broyer).

Verb

(en verb)

To crush or pound, especially with a mortar.

* Bible, Proverbs xxvii. 22

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 141:

Their heads and shoulders are painted red with the roote Pocone brayed to powder, mixed with oyle [...].

(British, chiefly Yorkshire) By extension, to hit someone or something.

* 2011 , , Butchers Perfume'' from ''The Beautiful Indifference , Faber and Faber (2011), page 25:

If anything he brayed him all the harder - the old family bull recognising his fighting days were close to over.