pulvériser
French, verb/pyl.ve.ʁi.ze/
pulvériser is spelled P-U-L-V-É-R-I-S-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 39,210th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pulvériser is a French verb meaning “to pulverise (to grind into powder)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Réduire en poudre ou en gouttelettes”.
What does pulvériser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pulverise (to grind into powder)
Near-synonym: réduire en poussière
- 2
informalto pulverise (defeat thoroughly)
Son principal objectif a toujours été de pulvériser le monde.
- 3
to spray (to project as liquid droplets)
pulvériser de l'eau sur une plante
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Réduire en poudre ou en gouttelettes. 2. Lancer, projeter la matière, le liquide pulvérisés. 3. Réaliser un dépôt de matière, un revêtement, par éjection d’atomes, en les soumettant à un bombardement ionique. 4. Détruire, réfuter complètement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pulvériser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pulvérisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pulvérisé participle past
- pulvérise first-person indicative present
- pulvérises indicative present second-person
- pulvérisons first-person indicative plural
- pulvérisez indicative plural present
- pulvérisent indicative plural present
- pulvérisais first-person imperfect indicative
- pulvérisait imperfect indicative singular
- pulvérisions first-person imperfect indicative
- pulvérisiez imperfect indicative plural
- pulvérisaient imperfect indicative plural
- pulvérisai first-person historic indicative
- pulvérisas historic indicative past
- pulvérisa historic indicative past
- pulvérisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pulvériser?
- /pyl.ve.ʁi.ze/
- \pyl.ve.ʁi.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pulvériser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pulvériser in French?
pulvériser appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).