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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Here it rushes and pushes, the atoms triturate and grind, and, eagerly thrusting by, pursue their separate ends.
From The Story of My Heart An Autobiography by Richard Jefferies
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
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
Let the above be very finely powdered, then mix it with sufficient honey to make it into a smooth paste; triturate it until entirely smooth.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
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 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.—There are two kinds of renal calculi, the phosphatic and the uric, which should be triturated as separate preparations.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
The wheat berry being broken up and triturated in one operation, the flour necessarily contained a large proportion of branny particles in which cerealin, an active diastasic constituent, was present in very sensible proportions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
The liquid is thoroughly shaken, or the powder carefully triturated, and the bottles containing them marked 1 X, meaning first decimal dilution or trituration.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
PREPARATION.—The insect is triturated with sugar of milk in the usual way.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
He stopped triturating some shavings of hard tobacco between his 24 huge palms, and sat quietly, hands clasped, as though in prayer.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
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
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
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
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
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