Synonyms of the word comminute


COMMINUTEBRAY - CRUNCH - FRAGMENT - FRAGMENTISE - FRAGMENTIZE - GRIND - MASH

comminute

  • v. To pulverize; to smash.
  • v. (medicine) To cause fragmentation (of bone).
  • v. To break into smaller portions.
  • n. Pulverized material.

bray

  • v. (intransitive) Of a donkey, to make its cry.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a camel, to make its cry.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.
  • v. (transitive) To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
  • n. The cry of an ass or donkey.
  • n. The cry of a camel.
  • n. Any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
  • v. (now rare) To crush or pound, especially in a mortar.
  • v. (Britain, chiefly Yorkshire) By extension, to hit someone or something.

crunch

  • v. To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
  • v. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
  • v. (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations).
  • v. To grind or press with violence and noise.
  • v. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by…
  • n. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
  • n. A critical moment or event.
  • n. (exercise (sport)) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains…

fragment

  • n. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.
  • n. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
  • n. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
  • v. (intransitive) To break apart.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

fragmentise

  • v. Alternative form of fragmentize.

fragmentize

  • v. (transitive) To break, cut, or otherwise separate (something) into fragments.
  • v. (intransitive) To fall into or become separated into fragments.

grind

  • v. To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
  • v. To shape with the force of friction.
  • v. (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
  • v. To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
  • v. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
  • v. (sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
  • v. To oppress, hold down or weaken.
  • v. (slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
  • v. (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed…
  • v. (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
  • v. To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
  • v. To instill through repetitive teaching.
  • v. (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
  • v. (slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
  • n. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
  • n. Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
  • n. A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
  • n. A tedious task.
  • n. A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
  • n. (archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
  • n. Grindcore (subgenre of heavy metal).
  • n. A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

mash

  • n. (obsolete) A mesh.
  • n. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass…
  • n. In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt…
  • n. Mashed potatoes.
  • n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
  • n. (obsolete): A mess; trouble.
  • v. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure.
  • v. (transitive) In brewing, to convert, (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
  • v. (transitive) To press down hard (on).
  • v. (transitive, Southern US, informal) to press.
  • v. (transitive, Britain) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew (used mainly in Northern…
  • v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
  • n. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
  • n. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher.
  • n. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex).

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