triturate
Americanverb (used with object)
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triturates,
present (3rd person singular)
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triturated,
past participle, past
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triturating
present participle
noun
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a triturated substance.
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Pharmacology. trituration.
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
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 Charles James Lever
Green oxide of chromium 1 part, flux No. 3, 3 parts, triturate and melt.
From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young
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 Mary E. Palmer
When a paradoxer parades capital letters and diagrams which are as good as Newton's to all who know nothing about it, some persons wonder why science does not rise and triturate the whole thing.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
Yellow ochre, No. 244, 15 parts; oxide of cobalt, 1 part; triturate and calcine in a crucible until it has the desired tone.
From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young
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 Frédéric Houssay
Miss Rosa, being a woman, must raise the lid, and gave a slight shiver at the innocent looking triturates.
From Rolling Stones by O. Henry
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 J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson
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
Preparation.—The fresh milk from a bitch is triturated in the usual way.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
They are used in the form of an electuary triturated to the proper consistency with honey or syrup.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Preparation.—The pure chemical is triturated in the usual way.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
Its union with the vegetable acid, when triturated with manna, is said to compose Keyser's Pill.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Then, triturating its substance between his fingers, he applied his nose to the product and sniffed critically.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
A palatable but slightly aperient beverage is prepared by triturating the fruits in water, and adding sugar and mandiocca flour.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
The crop is modified into a large and very rugose triturating apparatus, while the gizzard, thereby relieved of its function, is reduced to the utmost.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
Those who possess a Kent's "triturating strainer" will be able to do this much more satisfactorily, both as regards time and results, than by the old way of rubbing through a sieve.
From Nelson's Home Comforts Thirteenth Edition by Mary Hooper
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