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  • noun Plural form of macerate.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of macerate.

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Examples

  • A believer who flagellates or "macerates" himself today arouses more wonder and fear than emulation.

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

  • A believer who flagellates or "macerates" himself today arouses more wonder and fear than emulation.

    Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876

  • I recently met a senior lawyer and constitutional expert who's of the view that the Welsh Affairs Select Committee "macerates" bids for power put in front of them.

    BlogCymru.com 2009

  • The pie that is their legacy uses paper-thin slices of whole lemons, macerates them in sugar for a good while and mixes them with eggs to form a most-amazing pie filling, part marmelade and part curd.

    shaker lemon pie | smitten kitchen 2008

  • If she be not dishonest, he troubles and macerates himself without a cause; or put case which is the worst, he be a cuckold, it cannot be helped, the more he stirs in it, the more he aggravates his own misery.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The bad are simple or mixed: simple for some bad object present, as sorrow, which contracts the heart, macerates the soul, subverts the good estate of the body, hindering all the operations of it, causing melancholy, and many times death itself; or future, as fear.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The initial pressing extracts and macerates the skins, but the final pressure on the cake is soft, giving an almost gentle “basket press” effect.

    The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005

  • In the temperature-controlled battery of stainless-steel tanks Haut-Brion was the first major château to utilize them, in 1961, the young wine ferments and macerates for 15–20 days.

    The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005

  • The initial pressing extracts and macerates the skins, but the final pressure on the cake is soft, giving an almost gentle “basket press” effect.

    The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005

  • In the temperature-controlled battery of stainless-steel tanks Haut-Brion was the first major château to utilize them, in 1961, the young wine ferments and macerates for 15–20 days.

    The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005

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