Pulverise vs Triturate - What's the difference?
pulverise | triturate |
To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.
To defeat soundly, thrash.
To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.
To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize.
To mix two solid reactants by repeated grinding and stirring.
To break up biological tissue into individual cells via passage through a narrow opening such as a hypodermic needle.
As verbs the difference between pulverise and triturate
is that pulverise is to completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder while triturate is to grind to a fine powder, to pulverize.pulverise
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Alternative forms
* pulverizeVerb
(en-verb)- the stone pulverises easily