Meaning
pulverize; smash
- to reduce to dust, powder, or tiny particles
- to destroy completely, or to smash a sports or performance record
In a sentence
La giovane atleta ha polverizzato il record mondiale sui cento metri.
The young athlete smashed the world record in the hundred metres.
La bomba ha polverizzato l'edificio in pochi secondi.
The bomb pulverized the building in a few seconds.
Il macchinario polverizza i minerali duri prima della lavorazione.
The machine pulverizes the hard minerals before processing.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| polverizzare | infinitive |
| polverizzo | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| polverizzi | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| polverizza | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| polverizziamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| polverizzate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| polverizzano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| polverizzavo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| polverizzavi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| polverizzava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| polverizzavamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| polverizzavate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| polverizzavano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| polverizzai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| polverizzasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| polverizzò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| polverizzammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| polverizzaste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| polverizzarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| polverizzerò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| polverizzerai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| polverizzerà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| polverizzeremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| polverizzerete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| polverizzeranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| polverizzi | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| polverizzi | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| polverizzi | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| polverizziamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| polverizziate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| polverizzino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| polverizzassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| polverizzassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| polverizzasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| polverizzassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| polverizzaste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| polverizzassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| polverizzerei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| polverizzeresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| polverizzerebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| polverizzeremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| polverizzereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| polverizzerebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| polverizza | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| polverizziamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| polverizzate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| polverizzando | gerund |
| polverizzato | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Takes 'avere' as auxiliary.
- Very common in sports journalism to mean shattering or crushing a record.