granulate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to form, break, or collect into small grains or granules

   The processor can granulate the cooled material into uniform particles.

2. 2
   verb

   medicine: to form new granular connective tissue during the healing of a wound

   The clean wound began to granulate from the base upward.

3. 3
   verb

   to give a surface a finely grainy, rough, or beadlike texture

   The intersecting ridges granulate the edge of the beetle's wing case.

Back-formed from granulation and also understood as granule + verbal -ate. All senses retain the idea of producing small grains, whether in a material, a textured surface, or healing tissue.

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