"triturate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin triturare (“thresh”).",
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      "form": "triturates",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "triturated",
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      "word": "tritorium"
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      "word": "trituration"
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      "glosses": [
        "To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize."
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          "powder",
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      "glosses": [
        "To mix two solid reactants by repeated grinding and stirring."
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          "reactant",
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          "ref": "1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 10, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To break up biological tissue into individual cells via passage through a narrow opening such as a hypodermic needle."
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          "tissue",
          "tissue"
        ],
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          "hypodermic needle",
          "hypodermic needle"
        ]
      ]
    }
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    {
      "word": "triturable"
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      "word": "triturated"
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      "word": "trituration"
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        "To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize."
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