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pestle

verb as in powder

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Example Sentences

All are thrown into a wooden bowl and beaten with a pestle into a colorful plate of food.

So if you have high-quality saffron, you should feel free to grind it yourself with a mortar and pestle.

Put the spices into a pestle and mortar and pound them up with a pinch of salt.

Jack having overpowered her seized her by the hair and beat Baba Yaga with her own pestle.

F'r all ye know, it may be a short note to th' dhruggist askin' him to hit ye on th' head with a pestle.

I leaped at him and struck him a glancing blow with the heavy wooden pestle.

"I do not need advice from you," he growled, his wrinkled fingers grinding the rock pestle savagely against the bowl's contents.

She had got into the habit of relieving herself by an audible gasp each time she drove the pestle down.

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On this page you'll find 114 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pestle, such as: grate, pulverize, reduce, scrape, abrade, and atomize.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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