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granular | granular pearlite | granularity | granularly | granulary | granulate | granulated | granulated sugar | granulation | granulation tissue | granule

granulate

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Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
 : 
gran=u=late

CIDE DICTIONARY

granulatev. t. [See Granule.].
  •  To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.  [1913 Webster]
granulatev. i. 
     To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar.
granulatea. 
  •  Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Having numerous small elevations, as shagreen.  [1913 Webster]
Granulated steel, a variety of steel made by a particular process beginning with the granulation of pig iron.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

granulate, v.
1 tr. & intr. form into grains (granulated sugar).
2 tr. roughen the surface of.
3 intr. (of a wound etc.) form small prominences as the beginning of healing; heal, join.

Derivative
granulation n. granulator n.

THESAURUS

granulate

abrade, atomize, beat, boss, bray, break up, brecciate, cake, candy, cicatrize, close up, coarsen, come to dust, comminute, concrete, condense, contriturate, crumb, crumble, crumble into dust, crumble to dust, crush, crystallize, disintegrate, effloresce, fall to dust, fall to pieces, flour, fragment, gnarl, grain, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, heal, heal over, horripilate, knit, knob, levigate, mash, mill, pestle, pimple, pound, powder, pulverize, reduce to powder, right itself, rough, rough up, roughen, scab over, scrunch, set, shard, shred, smash, smooth, solidify, squash, stud, take a set, thicken, tooth, triturate

ROGET THESAURUS

granulate

Pulverulence

VB come to dust, be disintegrated, be reduced to powder reduce to powder, grind to powder, pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate, scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise, contuse, contund, beat, crush, cranch, craunch, crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate, attenuate.


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