triturate
verb (used with object)
to reduce to fine particles or powder by rubbing, grinding, bruising, or the like; pulverize.
triturated
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past participleof triturate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof triturate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
triturateverb (used with object)to reduce to fine particles or powder by rubbing, grinding, bruising, or the like; pulverize.
Example Sentences
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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
This should be thoroughly triturated, and then filtered into a clean bottle, when it is ready for use.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
To this seventy parts of mercury are added, and well triturated.
From Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades by J. Sawtelle Ford
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
A transparent liquor, which emits very copious fumes, called, from the inventor, the smoking liquor of Libavius, is made by distilling equal parts of amalgam of tin and mercury with corrosive sublimate, triturated together.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
