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Comminute   Listen
verb
Comminute  v. t.  (past & past part. comminuted; pres. part. comminuting)  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.
Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.





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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 ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


Words linked to "Comminute" :   grind, fragmentize, bray, fragment, crunch


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