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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of triturate.

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Examples

  • Of pan concentrators there is an enormous selection, the principle in most being similar -- i.e., a revolving muller, which triturates the sand, so freeing the tiny golden particles and admitting of their contact with the mercury.

    Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

  • The other charges will be a fee of $15 to $50 per week to include board, nursing, medical attendance, and ordinary medicine, especially such as can be reasonable furnished in that safe and most desirable form, tablet triturates.

    The Woman's Era Vol. 3 1896

  • The other charges will be a fee of $15 to $50 per week to include board, nursing, medical attendance, and ordinary medicine, especially such as can be reasonable furnished in that safe and most desirable form, tablet triturates.

    Souvenir Number N.F.A.A.M Convention Program 1896

  • The other charges will be a fee of $15 to $50 per week to include board, nursing, medical attendance, and ordinary medicine, especially such as can be reasonable furnished in that safe and most desirable form, tablet triturates.

    The Woman's Era Vol. 3 No. 2 1896

  • Miss Rosa, being a woman, must raise the lid, and gave a slight shiver at the innocent looking triturates.

    Rolling Stones O. Henry 1886

  • -- a stream that ran through Rome once, but has altered its course and wears away the banks here now and triturates its own atoms, the hearts, to dust in the process.

    The Toilers of the Field Richard Jefferies 1867

  • "Yes, by adopting a homoeopathic pharmacopoeia which still makes use of the foulest matter -- the extract of wood-lice, the venom of snakes, the poison of the cockchafer, the secretions of the skunk and the matter from pustules, all disguised in sugar of milk to conceal their taste and appearance; the world of letters, in the same way, triturates the most disgusting things to get them swallowed without raising your gorge.

    The Cathedral 1877

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