macerate

verb · nounB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

macerates

V_ing/Gerund

macerating

V_ed/pp

macerated

1.
To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
2.
To reduce solids to small pieces (in a macerator).
3.
(archaic)To make lean; to cause to waste away.
Baal scuttles with ten tails Between as many legs as he could carry— Perhaps Thomas poking through the holes And finding resolution beyond the scales And incorporeal pain of the hammered Messiah,
4.
(obsolete)To subdue the appetite by poor or scanty diet; to mortify.
5.
(obsolete)To mortify the flesh in general.
6.
(form of, obsolete, participle, past)past participle of macerate

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

macerates

1.
A macerated substance.

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

macerater macerative macerator unmacerated masticate

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Nguồn gốc từ

1534; Latin mācerātus, perfect passive participle of mācerō (see -ate), from Proto-Indo-European *mag-, *mak- (to knead), whence make. Cognate with macérer.