- to reduce to atoms.
- to reduce to fine particles or spray.
- to destroy (a target) by bombing, especially with an atomic bomb.
- to split into smaller parts, sections, groups, factions, etc.: Principles of freedom and individual liberty encouraged the economic individualism that atomized the nation and destroyed social responsibility.
- to split into smaller units; fragment: Critics say the group has atomized around several leaders.
- to separate or be separated into free atoms
- to reduce (a liquid or solid) to fine particles or spray or (of a liquid or solid) to be reduced in this way
- to destroy by weapons, esp nuclear weapons
