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Comminuted vs Comminated - What's the difference?

comminuted | comminated |

As verbs the difference between comminuted and comminated

is that comminuted is (comminute) while comminated is (comminate).

As an adjective comminuted

is reduced to small particles or to powder, as by crushing or pulverizing.

comminuted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Reduced to small particles or to powder, as by crushing or pulverizing.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 53:
  • Hawaiian sand is utterly different: it is comminuted coral and algae, the broken detritus of a hundred thousand storms washed up against the land.

    Synonyms

    * triturated

    Verb

    (head)
  • (comminute)
  • comminated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (comminate)

  • comminate

    English

    Verb

    (comminat)
  • To denounce or curse.
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