Definitions for macerates

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macerates mac·er·ate

Spelling: [mas-uh-reyt]

IPA: /ˈmæs əˌreɪt/

Macerates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 520 anagrams from letters in macerates (aaceemrst).

Definitions for macerates

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 macerates

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

Examples for macerates

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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