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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As it is certain that worms swallow many little stones, independently of those swallowed while excavating their burrows, it is probable that they serve, like mill-stones, to triturate their food.
From The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits by Charles Darwin
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
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
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
Mix, and triturate well in a mortar so as to mix perfectly, and make into twenty pills with mucilage of gum arabic.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
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
They are ground or triturated, or reduced to ashes, and only the ash or charcoal of their wood is used.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
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
Preparation.—The virus, obtained by irritating the animal and allowing it to bite on glass, is triturated in the usual way.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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
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
They present the extraordinary feature that the crowns became worn down flat by mastication, showing that the Iguanodon employed its teeth in actually chewing and triturating the vegetable matter on which it fed.
From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson
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
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 J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson
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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