Definitions for macerate

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macerate mac·er·ate

Spelling: [mas-uh-reyt]

IPA: /ˈmæs əˌreɪt/

Macerate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in macerate (aaceemrt).

Definitions for macerate

verb (used with object)

1. to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
2. to soften or decompose (food) by the action of a solvent.
3. to cause to grow thin.

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo maceration.
2. to become thin or emaciated; waste away.

Origin of macerate

1540-50; Latin mācerātus (past participle of mācerāre to make soft, weaken, steep); see -ate¹

Examples for macerate

macerate for 10 days in a stoppered bottle, express, and filter.

It is not advisable to macerate more than 50 grams in one operation.

For those who macerate the body, and long to put on immortality, are only in a kind of dream.

macerate the opium with 1⁄2 pint of the water for 24 hours, and express.

After this, the water is drawn off into a second vat in which are placed more beets, and allowed to macerate again for an hour.

These two drugs have the power to macerate dry, hard tissues.

They put some gum in the water in which they macerate the rags.

They put some gum in the water in which they macerate the raggs.

macerate in a close vessel for a fortnight, then filter and bottle for sale.

macerate about 20 grams of the sample after mixing with 30 to 40 cc.