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Hastily, he scraped a flat-edged scalpel along a tissue sample, hoping for maximum abrasion, and triturated the results.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 2016

The potatoes being boiled, are triturated, passed through a sieve, and incorporated with the dough by kneading.

From A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy by Accum, Friedrich Christian

To blacken the hair a little of this dye is triturated in the hand or between the fingers, with which the hair or beard is well rubbed.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus

The domes of triturated and plastered clay which cover their nests may rise to a height of five metres; that is to say, to dimensions equal to one thousand times the length of the worker.

From The Industries of Animals by Houssay, Frédéric

A finely triturated powder having slight abrasive properties, but free from dangerous grit, should be used as the complement of a liquid.

From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Triemens, Joseph