Macerate

[mac·er·ate]

When you macerate something, you soften it by soaking it in a liquid, often while you're cooking or preparing food.

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To make lean; to cause to waste away.

Verb
cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"

Verb
soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result; "macerate peaches"; "the gizzards macerates the food in the digestive system"

Verb
become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking; "the tissue macerated in the water"

Verb
separate into constituents by soaking


v. t.
To make lean; to cause to waste away.

v. t.
To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.

v. t.
To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.


Macerate

Mac"er*ate , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Macerated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Macerating.] [L. maceratus, p. p. of macerare to make soft, weaken, enervate; cf. Gr. to knead.] 1. To make lean; to cause to waste away. [Obs. or R.] Harvey. 2. To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify. Baker. 3. To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.

To make lean; to cause to waste away.

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