Pulp (Verb)
Meaning 1
Remove the pulp from, as from a fruit.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- Remove the seeds and pulp from the lemons before making the lemonade.
- To strain the juice effectively, pulp must be removed from the berries first.
- After squeezing the juice, make sure to discard the pulp from the oranges.
- Juice extracted from an orange is often strained to remove the pulp.
- A fine-mesh sieve can be used to extract the juice and remove the pulp from the grapefruit.
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Meaning 2
Reduce to pulp; "pulp fruit"; "pulp wood".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The hurricane reduced the small town to pulp overnight with its powerful winds and flooding.
- She carefully squeezed the juice out of the orange after she had pulped the fruit in the blender.
- Trees damaged in the storm were harvested and pulped to make new paper products.
- The accident left the car's bodywork crushed and pulped beyond recognition.
- Forestry workers carefully selected trees to pulp and process into paper and cardboard products.