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Granulate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GRAN'ULATE, v.t. [L. granum.]
1. To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder or sugar.
2. To raise into small asperities; to make rough on the surface.
GRAN'ULATE, v.i. To collect or be formed into grains; as cane-juice granulates into sugar; melted metals granulate when poured into water.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: form into grains [syn: granulate, grain]
2: become granular [syn: granulate, grain]
3: form granulating tissue; "wounds and ulcers can granulate"

Merriam Webster's

verb (-lated; -lating) Date: 1666 transitive verb to form or crystallize into grains or granules intransitive verb to form granulations <an open granulating wound> • granulator noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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. Derivatives: granulation n. granulator n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Granulate Gran"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Granulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Granulating.] [See Granule.] 1. To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal. 2. To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Granulate Gran"u*late, v. i. To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Granulate Gran"u*late, Granulated Gran"u*la`ted, a. 1. Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar. 2. Having numerous small elevations, as shagreen. Granulated steel, a variety of steel made by a particular process beginning with the granulation of pig iron.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Form into grains, reduce to grains. II. v. n. Be formed into grains, become granular, roughen.

Moby Thesaurus

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