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Comminute

verb
(past & past part. comminuted; pres. part. comminuting)
1.
Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading.  Synonyms: bray, crunch, grind, mash.  "Mash the garlic"






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"Comminute" Quotes from Famous Books



... pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate[obs3]; skin &c. 226; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch[obs3], disband; disperse &c. 73; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute &c. (pulverize) 330; apportion &c. 786. part, part company; separate, leave. Adj. disjoined &c. v.; discontinuous &c. 70; multipartite[obs3], abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated &c. v.; insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far ...
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