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Macerate

verb
(past & past part. macerated; pres. part. macerating)
1.
Separate into constituents by soaking.
2.
Become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking.
3.
Soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result.  "The gizzards macerates the food in the digestive system"
4.
Cause to grow thin or weak.  Synonyms: emaciate, waste.





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"Macerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... and I know not what Gentucca From that place heard I, where he felt the wound Of justice, that doth macerate ...
— Dante's Purgatory • Dante


Words linked to "Macerate" :   soften, dowse, macerative, maceration, douse, debilitate, separate, waste, souse, drench, soak, sop, drain, enfeeble


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