| VERB | change | comminute, grind, mash, crunch, bray | reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading |
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| Meaning | Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | grind, mash, crunch, bray | |
| Narrower | mill | grind with a mill |
| pestle | grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar | |
| pulp | Reduce to pulp | |
| Broader | break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise | break or cause to break into pieces |
| Spanish | aplastar, dilacerar, machacar, majar, moler, picar | |
| Catalan | capolar, moldre, molinar, picolar, triturar | |
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