triturate
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
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a triturated substance.
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Pharmacology. trituration.
verb
noun
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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trituratesimple
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trituratessimple
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have trituratedperfect
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has trituratedperfect
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am trituratingprogressive
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are trituratingprogressive
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is trituratingprogressive
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have been trituratingperfect progressive
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has been trituratingperfect progressive
Past
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trituratedsimple
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had trituratedperfect
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was trituratingprogressive
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were trituratingprogressive
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had been trituratingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of triturate
1615–25; < Late Latin trītūrātus (past participle of trītūrāre to thresh), equivalent to Latin trītūr ( a ) a threshing ( trīt ( us ) rubbed, crushed ( see trite) + -ūra -ure ) + -ātus -ate 1
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Just as the fish swallow stones to aid the digestion, we need the accidents and frictions of life to triturate our moral pabulum, and render it more easily assimilable to our constitutions.
From Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service by Lever, Charles James
Ointment for Piles.—Tannin, two drachms; water, two fluid drachms; triturate together, and add lard, one and a half drachms.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham
Green oxide of chromium, 1 part; oxide of cobalt, 2 parts; triturate, and melt at a high heat.
From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel
Subsulphate of iron, 1 part; oxide of zinc, 1 part; flux No. 2, 5 parts; triturate without melting.
From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel
They are observant enough of social forms to eat pie with a fork, and their teaspoon is always in the saucer; they eat slowly and take time to triturate.
From Guide to Hotel Housekeeping by Palmer, Mary E.
Miss Rosa, being a woman, must raise the lid, and gave a slight shiver at the innocent looking triturates.
From Rolling Stones by Henry, O.
Of pan concentrators there is an enormous selection, the principle in most being similar—i.e., a revolving muller, which triturates the sand, so freeing the tiny golden particles and admitting of their contact with the mercury.
From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances)
The author already quoted believes that the Pompilius seizes its captive by the pedicle which unites the abdomen to the cephalothorax, and that it triturates this point between its jaws.
From The Industries of Animals by Houssay, Frédéric
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
Preparation.—The live animal is crushed and triturated as under class IX of American Homœopathic Pharmacopœia, a tincture can be prepared as under class IV of the same Pharmacopœia.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
But in traveling, "on, on," is the word; so on we went, stumbling up through the triturated and block lava, as if Fame, or something else equally valuable, had been at the summit.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
For it appears from the experiments of Van Woensel, that calomel or sublimate corrosive, triturated with variolous matter, incapacitates it from giving the disease by inoculation.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Of means for crushing or triturating quartz there is no lack, and every year gives us fresh inventions for the purpose, each one better than that which preceded it, according to its inventor.
From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances)
The triturating power of worms not quite insignificant under a geological point of view.
From The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits by Darwin, Charles
Then, triturating its substance between his fingers, he applied his nose to the product and sniffed critically.
From South Wind by Douglas, Norman
The herbivorous animals are not armed with these formidable weapons, but have broad flat surfaces with intermixed plates of enamel, that they should wear less rapidly in the constant labour of grinding and triturating.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
It may be prepared by heating cuprous sulphide with sulphur, or triturating cuprous sulphide with cold strong nitric acid, or as a dark brown precipitate by treating a copper solution with sulphuretted hydrogen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
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