reduce+to+powder
71bray — I Yorkshire Dialect Beat up II Cleveland Dialect List beat or thrash with violence: Ah ll bray thee III North Country (Newcastle) Words to beat, to pound, to reduce to powder …
72Friction — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Friction >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 friction friction attrition Sgm: N 1 rubbing rubbing &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 confrication| confrication| detrition contrition| affriction abrasion arrosion| …
73pulverize — late 15c. (implied in pp. pulverizate), from L.L. pulverizare reduce to powder or dust, from L. pulvis (gen. pulveris) dust (see POLLEN (Cf. pollen)). Related: Pulverized; pulverizing …
74grind — To crush, pulverize, or reduce to powder by friction, especially by rubbing between two hard surfaces. Or, to shape or refine with friction. [For grinding to occur, bumping is required.] …
75levigate — v. a. Pulverize, comminute, triturate, grind, bruise, bray, reduce to powder …
76pulverize — v. a. Triturate, comminute, bruise, grind, bray, levigate, reduce to powder, pulverate …
77pound — I v 1. beat, batter, pommel, pelt, lay on, Sl. paste, Archaic. belabor; cudgel, bludgeon, baste, bastinado, cane, club, hammer, fustigate; maul, manhandle, rough up, Inf. give it to, Sl. knock around or about, Sl. give [s.o.] the business, Sl.… …
78levigate — v.t. make smooth; polish; mix thoroughly; reduce to powder or paste; a. smooth. ♦ levigation, ♦ levigator, n …
79pulverize — v.t. reduce to powder or fragments; grind; smash. ♦ pulveraceous, pulverous, pulverulent, a. covered with dust; dusty; crumbling into dust. ♦ pulverulence, n …
80mill — [1] Often used to refer to the whole engine. [2] To remove metal through the use of a rotating toothed cutter. [3] to grind, press or reduce to powder. [4] to shape or cut metal. [5] A milling cutter [6] A milling machine …