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Comminute

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To reduce to powder; pulverize.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To pulverize; to smash.

v. To cause fragmentation of bone, an intense skull fracture.

v. To break into smaller portions.

n. pulverized material

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make small or fine; reduce to minute particles or to a fine powder by breaking, pounding, braying, rasping, or grinding; pulverize; triturate, levigate.

Divided into small parts; comminuted.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

Word Usage

"For here again it is because the mouth fails to perform its office and fails even more completely-for birds have no teeth at all, nor any instrument whatsoever with which to comminute or grind down their food-it is,"

Verb Form

comminuted comminutes comminuting

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

fragmentise fragmentize fragment breakup

Cross Reference

comminute fracture

Hyponym

mill pestle pulp

Form

comminuted comminuting

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

pulverize triturate grind