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Definition: TRITURATE |
TRITURATETransitive verb1. To rub or grind to a very fine or impalpable powder; to pulverize and comminute thoroughly. 2. To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash. |
Date "TRITURATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Note: Triturate \Trit"u*rate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Triturated; present participle verb or noun Triturating.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. A powder produced from a solid by grinding, usually with the addition of some liquid b. To grind to a powder, usually with the addition of some liqui. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pulverulence | Reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate; scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise; contuse, contund; beat, crush, cranch, craunch, crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate; attenuate . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TRITURATE |
| English words defined with "TRITURATE": Contriturate ♦ Triturated, Triturating. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "TRITURATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shtyp (bruise, clench, compact, crush, Dent, depress, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, organ, override, pestle, pound, press, print, push down, quash, quell, repress, run down, run over, scotch, squash, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, suppress, swat, trample, trample down, type, tyrannize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هرس (jam, mash, mashing, maul, pounding, pulverization, squash, trituration), سحن (beat, bruise, grind, levigate, powder, pulverization, trituration), سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, trituration), ضرب بقوة (batter about, clout, lash, pound, slog, smack, thump, thwack), دق (beetle, chink, hammer, hammer down, knock, maul, percussion, pound, pounding, pulverization, reduce, trituration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стривам на прах (comminute, powder, pulverize), сдъвквам добре, пулверизирам (atomize, pulverize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozmìlnit (grind, pulverize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | triturer, trituration (trituration), piler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zerreiben (bray, crumble, crush, grind, pulverize, to bray, to triturate), pulverisieren (powder, pulverize, to triturate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κονιοποιώ (comminute, powder, pulverize), τρίβω (abrade, brush, chafe, fray, frazzle, grate, grind, massage, pound, powder, rub, scour, scrub, wear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | péppé zúz (pulp, squash, to pulp, to squash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ituratetray triturar (basil, bray, break, bruise, champ, crunch, crush, disintegrate, lead on, mash, masticate, pound, powder, scrunch, spall, talcum), reduzir a pó (levigate, pulverize), esmagar (bash, basil, bray, break, bruise, crush, jam, kibble, lead on, mash, meal, overwhelm, pound, press, pulverize, shatter, smash, squash, squelch, suppress, whelm). (various references) растирать в порошок (levigate). (various references) zdrobiti (crunch, crush). (various references) triturar (crush, pulverize, scrunch). (various references) iyi çiğnemek, ezip toz haline getirmek, öğütmek (crush, flour, grain, granulate, grind, mill). (various references) розтирати на порошок. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TRITURATE": triturated, triturates. (additional references) | |
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"TRITURATE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tirupati, titrate, titurate, Trimurti, Tritrust, Trittbrett. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-r-r-t-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: attrite, rattier, ruttier, tattier, titrate. | |
-3 letters: artier, attire, irater, ratite, ratter, ritter, tarter, tatter, tattie, tauter, territ, titter, triter, turret. | |
-4 letters: airer, aurei, irate, rater, retia, tarre, tater, terai, terra, tetra, titer, titre, trait, treat, trier, trite, truer, tutti, uraei, urare, urari, urate, uteri, utter. | |
-5 letters: airt, etui, rare, rate, rear, rite, ruer, tare. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-r-r-t-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: triturated, triturates. | |
+2 letters: antitruster, litterateur, reattribute. | |
+3 letters: antitrusters, litterateurs, reattributed, reattributes. | |
+4 letters: reattributing, reattribution, ultrafiltrate. | |
+5 letters: reattributions, ultrafiltrates. | |
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