macerate

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verb

1. separate into constituents by soaking
• Hypernyms:
separate
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
2. become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking
- the tissue macerated in the water
• Derivationally related forms:
macerative
• Hypernyms:
soften
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
3. soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result
- macerate peaches
- the gizzards macerates the food in the digestive system
• Derivationally related forms:
maceration
• Hypernyms:
soften
• Entailment:
drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
4. cause to grow thin or weak
- The treatment emaciated him
• Syn:
waste, emaciate
• Derivationally related forms:
maceration, emaciation (for: emaciate), wastage (for: waste), wasting (for: waste)
• Hypernyms:
enfeeble, debilitate, drain
• Cause:
emaciate
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  waste, emaciate