Macerate
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. To make
lean; to wear away.
3. Out of excessive zeal they macerate their bodies and impair their health.
4. To steep almost to solution; to
soften and separate the parts of a substance by steeping it in a fluid, or by the
digestive process. So we say, food is
macerated in the stomach.
Macerate
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. To make
lean; to cause to waste away.
2. To
subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to
mortify.
3. To
soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable
fiber.
Macerated
[Participle passive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Made thin or
lean; steeped almost to solution.
One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into
pulp.
