powdered

verb

Definition of powderednext
past tense of powder
as in crushed
to reduce to fine particles you have to powder the antibiotic tablet and mix it with food

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for powdered
  1. pounded
  2. beat
  3. disintegrated
  4. pulverized
  5. ground
Verb
  • My heartbeat pounded in my ears, drowning out the anticipatory purr of two ambulance engines idling nearby.
    Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Fieri’s tenders are wide and flat, resembling pounded and breaded chicken cutlets.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of pounded
Verb
  • The Rams were four days removed from defeating the Las Vegas Raiders, and the Vikings were four days removed from a 31-29 loss to the Lions, who have left opponents beat up throughout the season.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The possibility that Trump follows through on his bitcoin reserve plans has spurred huge bitcoin price predictions from bitcoin traders and investors—with a leak revealing Russia may beat the U.S. to creating a bitcoin reserve.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of beat
Verb
  • The coins were apparently stored in a leather pouch, which had disintegrated over time, and concealed within or behind a kitchen wall, according to the Jerusalem Post.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Roberto Mancini did make up with Carlos Tevez (or, at least, was willing to tolerate him) after their relationship at Manchester City appeared to have disintegrated.
    Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of disintegrated
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  • At the Indiana State Police Laboratory, scientists cut out sections of bone, froze them with liquid nitrogen and pulverized them into a fine powder.
    CBS News, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • On the city’s main shopping street, businesses that once bustled in the holiday season have been pulverized, and some of those that remain have been blackened by fire.
    Euan Ward, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of pulverized
Verb
  • Chris Harvey, a CAL FIRE spokesperson, warned on Sunday that firefighting aircraft may need to be grounded because of high winds.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The news comes after an air tanker was grounded Thursday following a collision with a civilian drone.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of ground
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