Crossword clues for atomize
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Atomize \At"om*ize\, v. t. To reduce to atoms, or to fine spray.
The liquids in the form of spray are said to be
pulverized, nebulized, or atomized.
--Dunglison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"reduce to atoms," 1845; "reduce a liquid to a very fine mist," 1865, verb formed from atom + -ize. Related: Atomized; atomizing. Originally in reference to medical treatment for injured or diseased lungs; sense of "to destroy with atomic weapons" is from 1945.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context transitive English) to separate or reduce into atoms 2 (context transitive English) to make into a fine spray 3 (context transitive English) to fragment, break into small pieces or concepts 4 (context transitive English) to bomb with nuclear weapons vb. 1 (context transitive English) to separate or reduce into atoms 2 (context transitive English) to make into a fine spray 3 (context transitive English) to fragment, break into small pieces or concepts 4 (context transitive English) to bomb with nuclear weapons
WordNet
Usage examples of "atomize".
The fight against the Past is thus seen to be the fight against the extra-European forces, for it is they who are perpetuating the atomizing of Europe, the Balkanization of a Culture, the Switzerland of the West.
To continue the atomizing of the host-people, class war is a basic tenet of the total view.
The blast circle then extended to the vinyl acetate monomer bottles and the stardust, the plastic material of the bottles vaporizing, the liquid, then atomizing and vaporizing as well, taking the aerosol stardust with it.
The moment the Quintan rockets disappeared in it, the probes emerged from the burning cloud in a spiral and, instead of making for the ship, crashed into each other head-on and were thus atomized.
The fight against the Past is thus seen to be the fight against the extra-European forces, for it is they who are perpetuating the atomizing of Europe, the Balkanization of a Culture, the Switzerland of the West.
New Yorkers existed as isolated units, cut off from one another by the bees, atomized and alone.
Particles aspirated so terribly fine, like almost atomized, so that they hung in the air like the air itself over the cribbed bed as the man expired, cat-yellow eyes wide open and face screwed into the very most godawful rictusized grin of pain, his last thoughts (if any) unknowable.
The Lektromag beam director and ranger on it homes in on target, atomizes it, and returns the atoms along a radio beam.
It's healthy up to the point where it atomizes and keeps you from working together with other people.
In its glare, Boba Fett was knocked back as the assembler disintegrated, its sticklike limbs flying through tumbled arcs and away from the atomized fragments of its body.
A brilliant light charge passed just before the nose of their ship, atomizing a candescent trail through debris and momentarily blinding her through the overhead visual screen.
Their purposes are to have a passive, obedient population of spectators in the political arena, not participants, consumers in the commercial arena, certainly not decision makers and participants, a community of people who are atomized and isolated so they cannot organize to put together their limited resources so as to become an independent and powerful force that will chip away at concentrated power.
Six subnuclear plasma-yield warheads had speared deep into the concrete carapace of the fortress and detonated, atomizing vast tonnages of concrete and steel, along with the thousands of human beings living within.
The little engine burned wood, and the wood was covered in a fine layer of atomized sugar syrup, like everything else near the mill, so its combustion was dirty and deliciously smelly.
More than thirty Morris Minors, some even priceless collectors models with split windscreens, suicide doors and hand-clap wiper arms, had already been atomized, never again to sneak through the dodgy back street MOT.