powderize — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To reduce to powder

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   The spleen was harvested as a control where Smurf2 is known to be highly expressed in the WT. All specimens were immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen, powderized using a mortar and pestle, and stored at -80°C until time for protein or RNA isolation.

2. To be reduced to powder

   Usage

   • Intransitive

Verb

1. become powder or dust

   Synonyms

   pulverizepulverisepowderise

   Broader terms

   disintegrate

   Examples

   When it was blown up, the building powderized

2. make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust

   Synonyms

   powderisepowderpulverizepulverise

   Broader terms

   disintegrate

   Examples

   pulverize the grains