powderize

Other forms of powderize

past tense

powderized·

present participle

powderizing·

third person

powderizes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about powderize

What does powderize mean?

powderize means "become powder or dust". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in powderize?

powderize has 3 syllables: pow-de-rize. The stress falls on "pow".

What is another word for powderize?

Close synonyms include pulverize, pulverise, powderise, powderise, powder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is powderize a common word?

powderize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.