macerate – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
macerate
v.
soften by soaking; cause to decompose or disintegrate; become soft, disintegrate; cause to become thin, make lean
Maceration
Maceration may refer to:
- Maceration (food), in food preparation
- Maceration (wine), a step in wine-making
- Maceration (sewage), in sewage treatment
- Maceration (bone), a method of preparing bones
- Acid maceration, the use of an acid to extract micro-fossils from rock
- Maceration, in chemistry, the preparation of an extract by solvent extraction
- Maceration, in biology, the mechanical breakdown of ingested food into chyme
- Pruning (maceration), in dermatology, the softening and whitening of skin that is kept constantly wet
- Maceration, in poultry farming, a method of chick culling
macerate
Verb
1. separate into constituents by soaking
(hypernym) separate
2. become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking; "the tissue macerated in the water"
(hypernym) soften
3. soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result; "macerate peaches"; "the gizzards macerates the food in the digestive system"
(hypernym) soften
(entail) drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
(derivation) maceration
4. cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
(synonym) waste, emaciate
(hypernym) enfeeble, debilitate, drain
(cause) emaciate
(derivation) bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration
macerare
v.
macerate, marinate, soak, steep, mash, ret, rait
macerarse
v.
macerate, soften by soaking
