Comminute

[kɒminu:t]

Definition

(v. t.) 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.

Typist: Susan

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Pulverize, triturate, grind, bruise, bray, break to pieces.

Checker: Mae

Definition

v.t. to reduce to minute particles: to pulverise.—n. Comminū′tion.—Comminuted fracture the breaking of a bone in several places: a compound fracture.

Edited by Ethelred