pulped

Crushed to paste

Pulped is the past tense of pulp, meaning reduced to a soft, wet mass.

Paper is made from pulped wood.

Fruit can be pulped for juice.

Figuratively, to pulp someone is to beat them severely: He got pulped in the fight.

Unsold books and magazines are pulped—recycled back into raw material.

mashed

crushed

Compressed into fragments

ground · pounded · blended · macerated · mushed · liquefied · paste · slurry · disintegrated · homogenized

beaten

pummeled

Struck many times

destroyed · demolished · trounced · annihilated · crushed · smashed · walloped · hammered · wrecked

softened

soaked

Thoroughly wet throughout

waterlogged · sodden · spongy · drenched · wet · tender · macerated · moistened · swollen · steeped

recycled

paper

Pressed pulp for writing

reprocessing · reclaimed · waste · fiber · cellulose · papermaking · slurry · mill · recycling · biodegradable

Categories
Opposites
physical integrity

pulpedintact

Not damaged or altered

whole · solid · unbroken · preserved · firm

publication status

pulpedpublished

Made available to readers

printed · preserved · archived · distributed · circulated

Phrases
Family

pulp, pulpy, pulps, pulping, pulpiness, pulpiest

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G