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TRITURATE

Definition: TRITURATE

TRITURATE

Transitive verb

1. To rub or grind to a very fine or impalpable powder; to pulverize and comminute thoroughly.

2. To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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)


Specialty Definition: TRITURATE

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonyms within Context: TRITURATE

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: TRITURATE

English words defined with "TRITURATE": ContriturateTriturated, Triturating. (references)

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Modern Translation: TRITURATE

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

растирать в порошок (levigate). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zdrobiti (crunch, crush). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

triturar (crush, pulverize, scrunch). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

iyi çiğnemek, ezip toz haline getirmek, öğütmek (crush, flour, grain, granulate, grind, mill). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розтирати на порошок. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: TRITURATE

Derivations

Words beginning with "TRITURATE": triturated, triturates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: TRITURATE

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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