micronizing

verb

present participle of micronize
as in milling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for micronizing
  1. milling
  2. pulverizing
  3. grinding
  4. powdering
  5. atomizing
  6. crushing
  7. disintegrating
  8. pounding
Verb
  • Fungus gnats are black and are more commonly found milling around the soil of houseplants.
    — Emma Jacobson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Aug. 2026
  • There are chef’s helpers milling about, ready to answer questions or offer some assistance.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of milling
Verb
  • Portions of its skeleton featured pulverizing bite marks and missing chunks that all bore the hallmark signs of another predatory attack.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 July 2026
  • The garbanzos are sometimes roasted before pulverizing, lending the yellow powder a richer, nuttier taste.
    — Randi Gollin, Martha Stewart, 25 June 2026
Definition of pulverizing
Verb
  • Its core 1970s grinding yet melodic bluesy approach didn’t shift when synthesizers became the rage in the 1980s or when grunge overtook the rock world in the 1990s.
    — Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The strain of ‘climbing the ladder’ The best esports players often have grinding schedules.
    — Erica D. Henn, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of grinding
Verb
  • Traditional methods such as powdering, cyanoacrylate fuming, or ninhydrin rely on sweat and sebaceous residues (a mixture of skin oil and dead skin) left behind on a surface.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Posada illustrated her in ostentatious attire to satirize the way the garbanceras attempted to pass as upper-class by powdering their faces and wearing fashionable French attire.
    — Mathew Sandoval, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
Definition of powdering
Verb
  • To accomplish this, Licklider proposed atomizing books into discrete blocks of information — exactly as Otlet had suggested more than half a century before, but now assisted by digital tools rather than index cards.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The mentality is just one example of how young people in China are reacting and adapting to a fast-changing and often atomizing urban society.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 21 Jan. 2026
Definition of atomizing
Verb
  • Consider each target wounded by crushing knockdowns and then killed by piggy-backers, irrespective of the quality of the quarter.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The writer compared the collapse of civil society to a boulder rolling downhill, crushing things in its path.
    — KANIS LEUNG, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of crushing
Verb
  • With all the rain from storms recently, our streets and roads are disintegrating faster.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
  • In just four years, Keegan had spurred a disintegrating club into a united entity known for its energy and style, cherished as the ‘Entertainers’.
    — Michael Walker, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of disintegrating
Verb
  • When your pounding headache is the result of alcohol (or a stomach virus), a pain reliever alone will not fix the problem.
    — Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Sarajevans still remember his commands to the Serb gunmen pounding the Bosnian capital in early 1992.
    — Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of pounding
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“Micronizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/micronizing. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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