Comminute

Definition: Comminute

Comminute

Verb

1. Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Comminute \Com"mi*nute\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Comminuted; present participle verb or noun Comminuting.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Comminute

Disjunction

Cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate; skin; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband; disperse; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute; (pulverize); apportion.

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 .

Crosswords: Comminute

Albanian

thërrmoj (crumb, crumble, crush, fritter, mince, pestle), grimcoj (atomize, crumble up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إمتزج (mingle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стривам на прах (powder, pulverize, triturate), разделям на части (joint, proportion, section), натрошавам на дребно. (various references)

Chinese 

粉碎 (Comminuted, Comminuting, Crumbled, shatter). (various references)

Farsi 

پودرشدن یاکردن , تجزیه کردن (Abstract, Analyze, Breakdown, Decompose, Dismember, Liberate), تجزیه شده , خردکردن (Break, Crash, Cutdown, Disintegrate, Fragment, Grind, Hack, Hash, Impinge, Infract, Joint, Mangle, Mash, Maul, Mince, Pestle, Shatter, Shiver, Smash, Smite, Squelch), خردشده , ریزریزکردن (Chop, Mince). (various references)

French

se mélanger. (various references)

Greek 

κονιοποιώ (powder, pulverize, triturate). (various references)

Hungarian

porrá õröl. (various references)

Korean 

분쇄하십시�" (pulverise, Pulverize). (various references)

Manx

mynnaghey (chop up, comminution, pulverization). (various references)

Pig Latin

omminutecay

Portuguese

pulverizar (crush, levigate, meal, mill, powder, pulverize, spray, talcum, vapor, vaporize, vapour), fragmentar (break up, disintegrate). (various references)

Romanian

pulveriza (atomize, grind, jet, levigate, powder, pulverize, spray, sprinkle), împãrţi (admeasure, allot, apportion, assign, branch, cast, deal, distribute, divide, dole, go snacks, impart, lay on, measure out, mete, mete out, parcel out, partake of, partition, pass out, portion, retail, section, share, slice, split). (various references)

Russian 

толочь (bruise, crush, pestle, stamp), дробить (atomize, crash, granulate, kibble, mill, smash, spalls). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pretvoriti u puder. (various references)

Spanish

cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle). (various references)

Swedish

stycka (cut up, dismember, joint), pulverisera (powder, pulverize). (various references)

Turkish

ufalamak (break up, chaff, chip off, crumb, crumble, pulverize, scrap), parçalamak (bash in, break into pieces, break up, calve, crumble, cut smth. asunder, cut up, dash, disintegrate, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, disrupt, lacerate, pull to pieces, rend, scrap, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, smash in, smash up, Spall, splinter, split, take to pieces, tear to pieces, total), ezmek (Bray, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down). (various references)

Ukrainian

розпорошувати (pulverize), тонко подрібнювати. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "comminute": comminuted, comminutes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Comminute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comique, comminate, communaute, cosmique. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: encomium, meconium.

-2 letters: centimo, comment, commune, commute, omentum, tonemic.

-3 letters: centum, commie, commit, conium, cummin, immune, income, mentum, minuet, minute, moment, muonic, mutine, neumic, noetic, notice.

-4 letters: cento, centu, comet, comte, conte, count, cumin, cutie, cutin, mimeo, mince, monie, monte, mount, mucin, muton, notum, onium, ontic, ounce, tonic, tunic, unite, unmet, untie.

-5 letters: cent, cine.

+1 letter: comminuted, comminutes.

+2 letters: communicate, communities, uncommitted.

+3 letters: communicated, communicatee, communicates, consummative, incommutable, minicomputer.

+4 letters: communalities, communicatees, communicative, decamethonium, excommunicate, immunochemist, immunogenetic, intercommunal, medicamentous, minicomputers, telecommuting.

+5 letters: commensuration, decamethoniums, excommunicated, excommunicates, excommunicator, immunochemists, immunogenetics, immunogenicity, immunoreactive, incommensurate, intercommunion, intercommunity, microminiature, multicomponent, noncommunities, noncommutative, subcommunities.