Granulate: Definition and part of speech

Granulate

  1. a. Alt. of Granulated
  2. v. t. To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.
  3. v. t. To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.
  4. v. i. To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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