triturate

English

Verb

1. To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize.
2. To mix two solid reactants by repeated grinding and stirring.
3. To break up biological tissue into individual cells via passage through a narrow opening such as a hypodermic needle.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula (Chapter X)

     Just over the external jugular vein there were two punctures, not large, but not wholesome-looking. There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn-looking, as if by some trituration.

Related terms

• tritorium
• triturable
• triturated
• trituration
• triturator
• triture

References

• “triturate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Italian

Verb

triturate

1. second-person plural present indicative of triturare
2. second-person plural imperative of triturare
3. feminine plural of triturato

Anagrams

• tritature

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) trītūrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of trītūrō