(transitive) To beat up (a person) more than usually severely. / (transitive, colloquial, loosely) To defeat severely in various, even non-contact, competitive sports.

(obsolete, rare) beautiful

(informal, rare) To beautify.

(medicine) A test of the function of lungs, such as spirometry.

To fire a gun. / (idiomatic) To commit to a course of action. / (soccer, idiomatic, intransitive) To shoot, kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal. / (tennis, informal) To hit a very powerful shot.

plural of nuclear-pulse rocket

(astronautics) a rocket that uses the impulse imparted by the detonation of nuclear bombs as the propulsive force to propel the spacecraft

present participle of pulchrify

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pulchrify

simple past tense and past participle of pulchrify