MEANING
1. Turn material into small grains or form into such grains.
2. Form new tissue as part of healing a wound.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- granulate sugar
- granulate material
On the page
The cooled mixture began to granulate.
Word forms
- Base
- granulate
- Past tense
- granulated
- Past participle
- granulated
- Present participle
- granulating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- granulate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are granulating
- Present perfect
- have/has granulated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been granulating
- Past
- granulated
- Past continuous
- was/were granulating
- Past perfect
- had granulated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been granulating
- Future
- will granulate
- Future continuous
- will be granulating
- Future perfect
- will have granulated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been granulating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: granulate; granulates; granulated; granulated; granulating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: uncommon. Third-person singular: granulates.
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