macerate
/ˈmasəreɪt
/verb
1(Especially with reference to food) soften or become softened by soaking in a liquid: [with object]: macerate the mustard seeds in vinegar [no object]: the fruit was allowed to macerate before fermentation...
- Leaves from adults were macerated with liquid nitrogen and then 75 mg of the tissue was mixed with 375 ml of extraction buffer.
- Identifying the prey of the giant squid, Achiteuthis dux, is not easy since they finely macerate their food.
- Infusing, distilling, macerating, deglazing and reducing - all, in one way or another, contribute to the essence of a final product.
Synonyms
pulp, mash, squash, soften, liquefy, soak, steep, infuse
2 [with object] archaic Cause to waste away by fasting: these men lodged in tombs and macerated themselves with fasting...
- She already macerated her poor little body and had resolved never to refuse the requests of the unfortunate.
- Cancer macerated her body and soul.
Derivatives
maceration
/ noun ...- The Burgundian vogue for cold maceration occasionally calls for refrigeration too.
- These holes appear to represent tubercles that did not become phosphatized and were dissolved during maceration.
- Profuse sweating can result in skin maceration and secondary microbial infections.
macerator
- ‘The food macerator recycles liquid as a sort of soup, to avoid the need for fresh water,’ said Sarah.
- The toilet is flushed and the effluent is discharged by gravity through the rear spigot and into the macerator device.
- Food Waste is washed through the sink into the Macerator, which then can be discharged to sea.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin macerat- 'made soft, soaked', from macerare 'to soften'.
Rhymes
- pricing power
- prick
- prick-bill
- prick ear
- prick-eared
- pricked-out
- pricker
- pricket
- pricket candlestick
- prick farrier
- pricking iron
- pricking out
- pricking-up
- pricking-wheel
- prickle
- prickle-apple
- prickleback
- prickle cell
- pricklefish
- prickle layer
- prickle pear
- prickless
- pricklet
- prickle-yellow
- prickliness