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Comminute

🔄 Synonyms of "Comminute"

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WordDefinition
grindverb(transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
mashnoun(uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
crunchnounTo crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
braynoun(intransitive) Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.

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WordDefinition
grindverb(transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
mashverb(transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
crunchverbTo crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
brayverb(intransitive) Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.
pulveriseverb(transitive) To render into dust or powder.
pulverateverb(transitive) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.
crushnounA violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
comminateverbTo threaten, especially with divine punishment
pulvernoun(obsolete) Powder.
pulverizeverbAmerican and Oxford British spelling of pulverise.
trituratenounTo grind to a fine powder, to pulverize.
repulverizeverb(transitive) To pulverize again.
crumbleverb(transitive) To break into crumbs.
quashverbTo defeat decisively, to suppress.
cut upverb(transitive) To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
decompoundnounA decomposite.
decomposeverb(transitive) To separate or break down (something) into its components.
cracknounA thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
mincenoun(uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
shatternoun(uncountable, slang) A form of concentrated cannabis.

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