triturate
Americanverb (used with object)
-
triturates,
present (3rd person singular)
-
triturated,
past participle, past
-
triturating
present participle
noun
-
a triturated substance.
-
Pharmacology. trituration.
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
-
trituratesimple
-
trituratessimple
-
have trituratedperfect
-
has trituratedperfect
-
am trituratingprogressive
-
are trituratingprogressive
-
is trituratingprogressive
-
have been trituratingperfect progressive
-
has been trituratingperfect progressive
Past
-
trituratedsimple
-
had trituratedperfect
-
was trituratingprogressive
-
were trituratingprogressive
-
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
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
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
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, flux No. 3, 3 parts, triturate and melt.
From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young
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 Barkham Burroughs
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
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
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
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
Furthermore the shell, when finely triturated, has served by its potentialised lime to cure some forms of cancer.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
If a hard rock is met with, it is first triturated by an iron rod, and the materials being thus reduced to small fragments or powder, are readily extracted.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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
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 Joseph Triemens
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 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
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
They do not seem hard enough to resist the triturating power of the gizzard of a gallinaceous bird, though they must resist that of some other birds; for the skin is as hard as ivory.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
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
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
