particulating

Verb (1)

particulate (third-person singular simple present particulates, present participle particulating, simple past and past participle particulated)

1. (transitive) To reduce to particles, make particulate.
   • Only after the explosion has particulated the poison and given it every opportunity to vaporize can any appreciable concentration of gas be present in the air.1918 October, S[amuel] J[ames] M[anson] Auld, “The German Gas Attack […]”, in Arthur W[ilson] Page, editor, The World’s Work: A History of Our Time, volume XXXVI, number 6, Garden City, N.Y....

Verb (2)

particulate (third-person singular simple present particulates, present participle particulating, simple past and past participle particulated)

1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) Synonym of particularize.
   • And I am bolde (contrary to the cuſtome of ſome vvriters) to leaue to particulate in my Epiſtle any part of the argument vvhich vvith ſo great grauitie he hath digeſted ar large in ſo great a volume: […]1579, Geffray Fenton, “To the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestie, Our […] Ladie Elizabeth, […]”, in Guicciardin [i.e., Francesco Guicciardini], translated by Geffray Fenton, The Historie of Guicciardin...

   Synonyms:

   particularize

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