Word Meanings - COMMINUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMINUTE)

• Levigate
• Comminute
• triturate
• pulverize
• smooth
• polish
• plane
• Mince
• Attenuate
• comminute
• palliate
• extenuate

Related words: (words related to COMMINUTE)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• COMMINUTE
  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. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• EXTENUATE
  thin, loosen, weaken; ex out + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See 1. To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness. His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail. Grew.
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• PALLIATE
  1. Covered with a mant Bp. Hall. 2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. Bp. Fell.
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• PULVERIZER
  One who, or that which, pulverizes.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• SMOOTHER
  One who, or that which, smooths.
• MINCER
  One who minces.
• PLANETOIDAL
  Pertaining to a planetoid.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• CONVEXO-PLANE
  Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
• DOORPLANE
  A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.
• CIRCUMINCESSION
  The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.
• CAPPING PLANE
  A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.