Usually means: Grind or crush into powder.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. triturate: Merriam-Webster
  2. triturate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. triturate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. triturate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. triturate: Wordnik
  6. triturate: Wiktionary
  7. triturate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. triturate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. triturate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. triturate: Dictionary.com
  11. Triturate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. triturate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. triturate: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  14. Triturate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. triturate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. triturate: FreeDictionary.org
  17. triturate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. triturate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. triturate: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. triturate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. triturate: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (triturate)

verb:  To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize.
verb:  To mix two solid reactants by repeated grinding and stirring.
verb:  To break up biological tissue into individual cells via passage through a narrow opening such as a hypodermic needle.

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