verb
- reduced to a soft, wet mass by crushing or beating
- destroyed by grinding into pulp, especially books or magazines
Usage: past tense and past participle of ‘pulp’
Usage: publishing industry term
Examples
- The oranges were pulped to make fresh juice.
- After the storm, the fallen apples were completely pulped.
- The unsold magazines were pulped at the recycling plant.
- She pulped the tomatoes for the sauce.
- The old textbooks were pulped rather than donated.
- The fruit had been pulped by the heavy machinery.