triturate
Meanings
verb
- To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize.
- To mix two solid reactants by repeated grinding and stirring.
- To break up biological tissue into individual cells via passage through a narrow opening such as a hypodermic needle.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin triturare (“thresh”).
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