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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for pulp

to press forcefully so as to break up into a pulpy mass

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Synonyms for pulp

any soft or soggy mass

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a soft moist part of a fruit

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a mixture of cellulose fibers

an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper

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the soft inner part of a tooth

remove the pulp from, as from a fruit

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reduce to pulp

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I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; that tender organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp -- tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has rained flesh and blood!
It lay there all battered to pulp; and all about were the evidences of a terrific fight.
Some had not then attained a sufficient degree of maturity; and their thick skin covered a white but rather fibrous pulp. Others, the greater number yellow and gelatinous, waited only to be picked.
Time and again the now useless stub of its giant sting struck futilely against my body, but the blows alone were almost as effective as the kick of a horse; so that when I say futilely, I refer only to the natural function of the disabled member--eventually the thing would have hammered me to a pulp. Nor was it far from accomplishing this when an interruption occurred that put an end forever to its hostilities.
And when one is slapped in the face--why then the consciousness of being rubbed into a pulp would positively overwhelm one.
With the grip of ten thousand devils, my finger-tips were caught, drawn in, and pulped to--well, just pulp.
There wasn't any sense in slowly feeding in till my head was crushed, and already my arm was pulped half way from elbow to shoulder, and the pulping was going right on.
The rind is perhaps an eighth of an inch in thickness; and denuded of this at the time when it is in the greatest perfection, the fruit presents a beautiful globe of white pulp, the whole of which may be eaten, with the exception of a slender core, which is easily removed.
As soon as it cools the rind drops off, and you then have the soft round pulp in its purest and most delicious state.
There was nothing else in the world but that face, and he would never know rest, blessed rest, until he had beaten that face into a pulp with his bleeding knuckles, or until the bleeding knuckles that somehow belonged to that face had beaten him into a pulp.
Pulp responses to the application of a self-etching adhesive in human pulps after controlling bleeding with sodium hypochlorite.
They were the "adventure pulps" that flourished from the 1950s through the '70s, and they featured exactly those kinds of ripping yarns, and so much more besides.
While pulp magazines have been collected for decades, only during the past few years has there been a growing interest in collecting the dynamic art of the pulps.
Decades later, with the enormous variety of gay and lesbian fiction at our fingertips, the lesbian pulps look quaint, with their blond femmes in clingy dresses and brunet butches in trousers and men's shirts.
"Trees are really an economical source of paper, Byrd stated Noting that most testing requests are coming from entrepreneurs, not paper manufacturers, he foresees construction of mini-mills to produce non-wood pulps in small quantities.