Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To rub, crush, grind, or pound into fine particles or a powder; pulverize.
- n. A triturated substance, especially a powdered drug.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To rub, grind, or bruise; specifically, to grind to a powder.
- In physiology, to grind with the grinders; masticate with the molar teeth; chew to a pulp.
- n. A form of medicine in which an active substance has been thoroughly powdered and mixed by rubbing up with sugar of milk.
Wiktionary
- v. To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize.
- v. To mix two solid reactants by repeated grinding and stirring.
- v. To break up biological tissue into individual cells via passage through a narrow opening such as a hypodermic needle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash.
- v. To rub or grind to a very fine or impalpable powder; to pulverize and comminute thoroughly.
Etymologies
- Late Latin trītūrāre, trītūrāt-, to thresh, from Latin trītūra, a threshing, from trītus, past participle of terere, to thresh; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Assail me and you irrevocably ravish your own integrity, triturate your own sculpted truths.”
“Take one drachm of ebeny and nine oboli of burnt copper, rub them upon a whetstone, add three oboli of saffron; triturate all these things reduced to a fine powder, pour in an Attic hemina of sweet wine, and then place in the sun and cover up; when sufficiently digested, use it.”
“Having cut some bulbs or squill, boil in water, and when well boiled, throw this away, and having poured in more water, boil until it appear to the touch soft and well-boiled; then triturate finely and mix roasted cumin, and white sesames, and young almonds pounded in honey, form into an electuary and give; and afterwards sweet wine.”
“Take three cantharides, and removing their head, feet, and wings, triturate their bodies in three cupfuls (cyathi) of water, and when the person who has drunk the draught complains of pain, let him have hot fomentations applied.”
“A flat, smooth, oval slab, weighing about fifteen pounds, and a stone roller six inches in diameter, worked with both hands, and the weight of the body kneeling ungracefully upon it on “all fours,” are used to triturate the holcus grain.”
“Melt together over a water bath white wax and spermaceti each one ounce, camphor two ounces, sweet almond oil, one pound, then triturate until the mixture has become homogeneous, and allow one pound of rose-water to flow in slowly during the operation.”
“And to say the truth, remembering that Dr. Swinnerton himself never appeared to triturate or decoct or do anything else with the mysterious herbs, our old friend was inclined to imagine the weighty commendation of their virtues to have been the idly solemn utterance of mental aberration at the hour of death.”
“Empty the sample of soil into the mortar and triturate thoroughly.”
“Mucilage one ounce; triturate it with Levigated Indigo and Lamp Black q.s. to give it a good color.”
“-- Six parts Persian Blue, one quart Oxalic Acid; triturate with little Water to smoothe paste, add Gum Arabic and the necessary quantity of Water.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘triturate’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Undo
A list of terms that denote separating one thing from another, or deconstructing a thing into its parts or to a former state. E.g., untie, divorce, unscramble.
untie, divorce, unscramble, disunite, disjoin, undo, separate, disassemble, uncouple, unhitch, disassociate, disaffiliate and 185 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Verbal Advantage List
ostensible, paraphrase, digress, uncanny, candor, morose, adept, saturated, pragmatic, congenial, capricious, blatant and 487 more...
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technomom's Words
misology, sacerdotal, omphaloskepsis, jimjams, incunabulum, repose, trecento, chimera, tridecennary, tenebrous, purblind, floruit and 207 more...
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Turning and Twisting Tours
words in the nature of double spirals
swift, swerve, swirl, swivel, swarm, swag, swank, swoop, swinge, swarf, spire, esparto and 361 more...
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trinity words
triumvir, tierce, sesterce, trinity, trammel, trephine, tercel, tercet, tertian, tricrotic, tritone, triad and 58 more...
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Tomanian
humdudgeon, bounden, limitrophe, autarkic, bemute, janissary, camarilla, bastion, barbican, machicolation, abacinate, donjon and 28 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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hey cringe
pummel, mangle, wallop, lambaste, comminute, triturate, chew, stitches
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Reduce by Rubbing or Grinding
Words that mean to reduce by rubbing or grinding
comminute, triturate, pulverize, contriturate, abrade, levigate, laevigate, attrit
Tweets
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knitandpurl "They're triturating each other."
Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, p 100 of the NYRB paperback
Nov 6, 2010
reesetee (verb used with object) 1. to reduce to fine particles or powder by rubbing, grinding, bruising, or the like; pulverize.
(noun) 2. a triturated substance. Mar 5, 2008
chained_bear Usage note on triturated. Mar 5, 2008