Definition of Comminute

1. Verb. Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading. "Mash the garlic"

Exact synonyms: Bray, Crunch, Grind, Mash
Specialized synonyms: Pulp, Pestle, Mill
Generic synonyms: Break Up, Fragment, Fragmentise, Fragmentize
Derivative terms: Crunch, Grind, Grinder, Grinder, Grinding, Grinding, Mash, Mash, Masher

Definition of Comminute

1. v. t. To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.

Definition of Comminute

1. Verb. To pulverize; to smash. ¹

2. Verb. (injury) To cause fragmentation of bone, an intense skull fracture. ¹

3. Verb. To break into smaller portions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Comminute

1. [v -NUTED, -NUTING, -NUTES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Comminute

comminating
commination
comminations
comminatory
comming
commingle
commingled
comminglement
comminglements
commingler
comminglers
commingles
commingling
comminglingly
comminglings
comminute (current term)
comminuted
comminuted fracture
comminuted skull fracture
comminutes
comminuting
comminution
comminutions
commis
commiserable
commiserate
commiserated
commiserates
commiserating
commiseratingly

Literary usage of Comminute

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"... arising from the inter- ambulacral margin, and attached to the fire jaws of the dental apparatus. comminute res clbo'rum. ..."

2. The Techno-chemical Receipt Book: Containing Several Thousand Receipts by William Theodore Brannt, William Henry Wahl (1886)
"comminute 2 ounces of orange peel, * ounce each of gentian root, ... Tr. Or, comminute 15 ounces of calamus root and 1 ounce of angelica root. ..."

3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"I. [The verb comminute is later, and due to the sb. ; it occurs in Pennant's Zoology, The Gilt Head. ... Der. comminute, verb. COMMINGLE, to mix together. ..."

4. A German-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1917)
"... vt reduce to small pieces, comminute, disintegrate. zerklüftet, pa cleft, ... vt reduce to dust, comminute, (of liquids) atomize, (of mercury) flour; ..."

5. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To reduce anything to powder by friction ; to comminute by attrition ; to comminute by the teeth or grinders ; to sharpen or ..."

6. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1826)
"Not even in the form and manner, sir ; not even the wolves, the dogs, nor the bugs, sir, ever comminute the division of their respective Danes, mercuries, ..."

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