pulp

Plural: pulps

Noun

• any soft or soggy mass
  • "he pounded it to a pulp"
• a soft moist part of a fruit
• a mixture of cellulose fibers
• an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper
• the soft inner part of a tooth
• A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
• A mixture of wood, cellulose and/or rags and water ground up to make paper.
• A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
• A mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose).
• A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
• A suspension of mineral particles, typically achieved by some form of agitation.
• A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
• The soft center of a fruit.
• A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
• The soft center of a tooth.
• A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
• The underside of a human fingertip; a finger pad.
• A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
• The very soft tissue in the spleen.
• A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.

Verb

Verb Forms: pulped, pulping, pulps

• To reduce something to a soft, moist, amorphous mass.
• remove the pulp from, as from a fruit
• reduce to pulp
  • "pulp fruit"
  • "pulp wood"
• To make or be made into pulp.
• To beat to a pulp.
• To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from.

Adj

• Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.

Examples

• He had to pulp his strategy after his opponent made an unbeatable move.

Synonyms

flesh, mush, pulp magazine, fruitflesh, mash, palp, pomace, pulpish, pulpy

Anagrams of pulp