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