If someone pulverizes an opponent in an election or competition, they thoroughly defeat them. He is set to pulverise his two opponents in the race for the presidency. = thrash
To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued
If you pulverize something, you make it into a powder by crushing it. Using a pestle and mortar, pulverise the bran to a coarse powder The fries are made from pellets of pulverised potato. = grind
pul·ver·ize pulverizes pulverizing pulverized in BRIT, also use pulverise1. To pulverize something means to do great damage to it or to destroy it completely. the economic policies which pulverised the economy during the 1980s