triturate

present singular third person triturates · participle present triturating · participle past triturated · past triturated

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.

   Just over the external jugular vein there were two punctures, not large, but not wholesome-looking. There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn-looking, as if by some trituration.

   1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC