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pulverise

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To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.

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The most dangerous chancellor I have encountered in my entire career, who wishes to pulverise the welfare system and the public services generally with a further package of dramatic "cuts" in the next parliament, was treating himself to a break from austerity in what Virgin Atlantic call upper class.

A snippet: A senior editor and a Guardian computer expert used angle grinders and other household tools to pulverise the hard drives and memory chips on which the encrypted files had been stored.

TO CHEERS from red-shirted supporters, on July 1st Hugo Chávez officially launched his campaign for Venezuela's presidential election with a rally in Maracay, just west of the capital, Caracas, where he promised to "pulverise" the opposition.

Although he labelled the offensive a hostage-rescue mission, Mr Estrada has also said that his troops will "pulverise [the Abu Sayyaf] and reduce them to ash .Along with his other problems, including a slipping economy and allegations of cronyism and incompetence, the troubles in the southern Mindanao region continue to create fresh headaches for Mr Estrada.

General Ronald Griffiths told his colleagues never to forget the words of a historian of the Korean war:You may fly over a land for ever, you may bomb it, pulverise it and wipe it clear of life.

Whereas explosives tend to pulverise much of the material into dust, a gas cartridge fractures it into chunks which are easier to move and reuse.

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As I am a person who regularly pulverises my own sofa – shouting, "Why don't you get some more women on?", while throwing things at it – I was concerned I would end up staging a retro-feminist protest along the lines of "Why not Everywoman?" But there was no need to worry.

The 2012 Tour de France winner and London 2012 gold medallist pulverised the distance set by his fellow Briton Alex Dowsett and said: "That's the closest I will come to knowing what it's like to have a baby," although afterwards he would not be drawn on what his wife, Cath, had to say.

You could have stripped the man of his endoskeleton and pulverised skin and organs until he was little more than a twitching, bloodied, barely verbal blob on the ground and he still would have shot his hand (or whatever remained of it) up and said to Clarke, "No, I'm right to bowl".

It was where you heard the musical hits of the day at pulverising volume and where you could have an out-of-body experience before the onset of drugs – simply by stepping on to the rollercoaster or the whirling waltzer.

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