The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triturate \Trit"u*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Triturated; p. pr. & vb. n. Triturating.] [L. trituratus, p. p. of triturate to thrash (grain), fr. terere, tritum, to rub, rub to pieces. See Trite.]
To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash.
To rub or grind to a very fine or impalpable powder; to pulverize and comminute thoroughly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"grind into powder," 1755, from Late Latin trituratus, past participle of triturare "to thresh, to grind," from Latin tritura "a rubbing, a threshing," from past participle stem of terere "to rub" (see throw (v.)). Related: Triturated; triturating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize. 2 To mix two solid reactants by repeated grinding and stirring. 3 To break up biological tissue into individual cells via passage through a narrow opening such as a hypodermic needle.
Usage examples of "triturate".
It consists merely of one ounce of fine Chinese vermilion and one drachm of protosulphate of iron, well triturated with boiled oil varnish.
Horsley gives the following receipt: Triturate in a mortar thirty-six grains of gallic acid with three and one-half ounces of strong decoction of logwood, put it into an eight ounce bottle, together with one ounce of strong ammonia.
Here it rushes and pushes, the atoms triturate and grind, and, eagerly thrusting by, pursue their separate ends.
Then they were to be powdered, triturated, and again exposed to the sun, again reduced to a very fine powder, and secured in a vessel, while hot, from the sunshine.
I suppose they tell you it is made of white violets dried, and triturated in a diamond mill.
The thoughts of man are like these: each to him seems great in his day, but the ages roll, and they shrink till they become triturated dust, and you might, as it were, put a thousand on your thumb-nail.
His brain seemed to expand time, letting him see the full horror of his flesh being triturated, every detail slamming into his mind.
Encased in that metal armour human bodies should have first been triturated by the blast wave then fried by the infrared radiation.
Many homoeopathic remedies are thoroughly triturated with sugar of milk, which renders them more palatable and efficacious.
It should be triturated with sugar of milk or with common white sugar, in the proportion of one grain to ten of sugar.
They made their round together - the usual port diseases had made their appearance - and when they, for want of an intelligent reliable loblolly boy, had rolled their own pills, prepared their own draughts and triturated their own quicksilver in hog's lard for blue ointment, Stephen said to Macmillan, 'Among your books, do you have Willis on Mental Derangement or any of the other authorities?
Although the tissue-salts are triturated in a base of lactose (sugar of milk) the sugar content of the tablets is so very tiny that no reaction should be experienced.