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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



... dissect, anatomize; dislimb^; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate^; skin &c 226; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch^, 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^, abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated &c v.; insular, separate, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


Words linked to "Comminute" :   grind, fragment, bray, break up, pestle, mash


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