0 past simple and past participle of macerate
1 to leave food in a liquid so that it absorbs the liquid and becomes soft, or to become soft in this way:
Mix together all the ingredients and leave them to macerate in the fridge overnight.
Samples of 10-50 g of coal were macerated in nitric acid and then cleared in potassium hydroxide.
The plants were separated into their parts and macerated with different solvents (n-hexane, acetone, ethanol and methanol).
All comparative samples were macerated in a 2:1 mixture of 30% hydrogen peroxide and glacial acetic acid.
As the storm swell dissipated, the continued application of layer-parallel shear stresses macerated any stratigraphy not already cemented to form the platy, intraclastic matrix.
After removal of the tunica, seminiferous tubules were macerated using a pair of fine scissors.
For that reason all the specimens examined had been dead for some time, and the parasites were usually in a more or less macerated condition.
In this way, three samples of control wines and three of macerated wines of each variety were obtained for both the vintages.
After the fresh faecal weight was determined, faeces were macerated and mixed with water, and then the large debris was removed with a wire mesh.
