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Definitions: Macerate |
MacerateVerb1. Become soft or disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking; "the tissue macerated in the water". 2. Soften and cause to disintegrate as a result; "macerate peaches". 3. Cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "macerate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Note: Macerate \Mac"er*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Macerated; present participle verb or noun Macerating.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | To soften or separate (a substance) into parts by steeping in a liquid. Source: European Union. (references) |
Language | Soften a solid or a tissue by steeping. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: MacerateSynonyms: emaciate (v), waste (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Water | Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Macerate |
| English words defined with "macerate": Macerated, Macerating. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
macerate | 31 |
macerate product | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "macerate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbus (allay, amortise, amortize, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, calm down, domesticate, ease, propitiate, relax, soften), tret (assimilate, cut, dissipate, dissolve, lose, melt, thaw), njom (baste, dabble, dew, douse, Dunk, moisten, Rait, ret, saturate, soak, souse, steepen, wet). (various references) | |
Arabic | نهك (exhaust, fatigue, fray, frazzle, gruel, harass, jade, overdo, overload, overstrain, prostrate, spend, wear), نحل بالنقع, طرى بالنقع, ذبل بفرط الصيام, أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отслабвам много, омекчавам (soften), накисвам (drench, saturate, soak, sodden, souse, steep), изтощавам се (frazzle, overwork, poop, run down), изтерзавам. (various references) | |
Chinese | 浸软 (Macerated, Macerating). (various references) | |
Czech | mořit, máèet (dabble, soak). (various references) | |
Danish | tekstilfyldt pressemasse (fabric-filled moulding material). (various references) | |
Dutch | maceraat, textielsnipper persmassa (fabric-filled moulding material), persmassa op basis van textielvlokken (fabric-filled moulding material). (various references) | |
Finnish | kangastäytteinen puristusmassa (fabric-filled moulding material), kangastäytteinen puristusaine (fabric-filled moulding material). (various references) | |
French | macérer. (various references) | |
German | aufweichen (be weakened, become sodden, get soft, make sodden, make soft, soak, soften, to soften, water down, weaken). (various references) | |
Greek | ισχναίνω (emaciate, slim), μαραίνω (blight, fade, wilt, wither, wizen), μουσκεύω (damp, drench, ret, saturate, soak, steep, to moisten, wet), υλικό για καλούπωμα με ενίσχυση από ύφασμα (fabric-filled moulding material), λυώνω (consume away, languish, melt, scuff, thaw), διαλύω (dilute, disassemble, disband, dismount, dissipate, dissolve, liquidate, take apart). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lesoványít (emaciate, to emaciate), elámaszt, áztat (irrigate, ret, soak, to bathe, to lave, to leach, to soak, to steep, to wash). (various references) | |
Italian | macerare (marinate, mash, Rait, ret, soak, steep). (various references) | |
Korean | 담가서 부"럽게 하십시". (various references) | |
Manx | shangaghey (emaciate, maceration, reduce, slenderization, slenderize, slim, slimming, thinning, waste, waste as body), molkaghey (maceration), boggaghey (aspirate, dissolve, ease, elide, elision, maceration, moisten, push off, relax, relaxation, soften, steep, tone down). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aceratemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | macerar (decoct, digest, infuse, mortify, rait, ret). (various references) | |
Romanian | macera (soak), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), emacia. (various references) | |
Russian | вымачивать (soak). (various references) | |
Scottish | foil (pig-stye). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | smekšati (become soft, soften, tenderize), omršaviti (emaciate), nakvasiti (damp, dampen, get slightly wet, get wet, imbrue, liquor, moisten, wash). (various references) | |
Spanish | macerar. (various references) | |
Swedish | laka ur, blöta upp (soak). (various references) | |
Thai | เปื่อย, ทำให้เปื่อย. (various references) | |
Turkish | ıslatarak yumuşatmak. (various references) | |
Ukranian | виснажувати (attenuate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, deplete, distress, drain, emaciate, exhaust, impoverish, overcome, overdrive, prostrate, pull down, sap, use up, waste), вимочувати (waterlog). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "macerate": macerated, macerates. (additional references) | |
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"Macerate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Macarie, Macarten, Macbeath, Maceachen, Macenroe, Macierra, Mackereth, Mackreth, maderaner, maderate, maleate, malegato, masserate, Micrarter, micrite, Mycarta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "macerate" (pronounced 'Mac"er*ate'): Abacinate, Abalienate, Aberrate, Aberuncate, Abirritate, Abjudicate, Abjugate, Ablactate, Ablaqueate, Abligate, Abnegate, Abnodate, Abominate, Abranchiate, Absinthate, Absinthiate, Absquatulate, Acaudate, Accelerate, Accentuate, Acclimate, Accorporate, Accriminate, Accurate, Acerbate, Acetate, Achlamydate, Acidulate, Activate, Aculeate, Aculeolate, Acutifoliate, Acutilobate, Adipocerate, Adjugate, Admarginate, Administrate, Adnate, Adrogate, Adulate, Adumbrate, Aerate, AEstivate, Affatuate, Affectionate, Affricate, Aggerate, Aggrate, Aggravate, Agitate, Agnominate, Alcoholate, Allatrate, Alleviate, Alligate, Allineate, Allocate, Alloxanate, Altercate, Aluminate, Alveolate, Ambreate, Ambulate, Amplificate, Amputate, Amylate, Anastate, Anchorate, Angulo-dentate, Angustate, Annominate, Annumerate, Antepenultimate, Anticipate, Antimonate, Antiquate, Apostemate, Apostolate, Appendicate, Appendiculate, Appropinquate, Apricate, Aptate, Archiepiscopate, Archontate, Archprelate, Archprimate, Argentate, Arietate, Ariled, Arillate, Aristate, Aristulate, Arllated, Arrogate, Arsenate, Arseniate, Arsenicate, Asiphonate, Asperate, Asphyxiate, Asseverate, Assibilate, Assiduate, Assimulate, Assonate, Assubjugate, Astate, Astipulate, Attaminate, Atterrate, Aurate, Aureate, Auriphrygiate, Auscultate, Authenticate, Averruncate, Aviate, Avocate, Avolate, Baccate, Barbate, Barbellate, Barbellulate, Beatificate, Belate, Beneficiate, Benzoate, Berate, Biacuminate, Biarticulate, Biauriculate, Bibracteate, Bicalcarate, Bicarbonate, Bicarinate, Bicaudate, Bicolligate, Biconjugate, Bicorporate, Bicostate, Bicrenate, Bidentate, Bidigitate, Bifidate, Biflabellate, Biflagellate, Bifoliate, Bifoliolate, Biforate, bigeminate, Bijugate, Bilabiate, Bilaciniate, BILLINGSGATE, Bilobate, Bimaculate, Bimarginate, Binarseniate, Binate, Binervate, Binoculate, Binoxalate, Binucleolate, Biocellate, Bipalmate, Bipeltate, Biplicate, Bipunctate, Bipupillate, Biquadrate, Bisaccate, Biscutate, Biseptate, Biserrate, Bisilicate, Bisulcate, Bisulphate, Bitartrate, Biternate, Bituminate, Bombilate, Bombinate, Boncilate, Bookmate, Bookplate, Borate, Borosilicate, Bovate, Braccate, Brachiate, Bracteate, Bracteolate, Branchiate, Breastplate, Breedbate, Brevipennate, Brominate, Bullate, Bursiculate, Butyrate, Cacuminate, Caducibranchiate, Calamistrate, Calceolate, Calcinate, Calcitrate, Calibrate, Caliphate, Camerate, Campanulate, Cancellate, Cancerate, Candidate, Canonicate, Cantillate, Capacitate, Capistrate, Capitate, Capitellate, Caprate, Capreolate, Caproate, Caprylate, Carbazotate, Carbohydrate, Carbonate, Cardinalate, Carnate, Carucate, Casemate, Cassate, Castigate, Castrate, Cate, Catechumenate, Catenate, Catenulate, Celebrate, Centumvirate, Centuplicate, Cephalate, Cerate, Cerebrate, Chelate, Chlamydate, Chlorate, Chloridate, Chlorinate, Chocolate, Cholate, Chromate, Cicurate, Circumagitate, Circumambulate, Circumgyrate, Circumnavigate, Circumnutate, Circumrotate, Circumstantiate, Circumundulate, Cirrate, Citrate, Clarigate, Classmate, Clathrate, Clavellate, Clodpate, Clypeate, Coadunate, Coelenterate, Coestate, Cohobate, Coinquinate, Collectorate, Collimate, Colliquate, Colorate, Columbate, Combinate, Commemorate, Commentate, Commigrate, Commiserate, Commissionate, Commodate, Compaginate, Comparate, Compendiate, Comperendinate, Comprobate, Concamerate, Concatenate, Concelebrate, Conciliate, Concinnate, Concionate, Concreate, Concubinate, Conculcate, Conduplicate, Confabulate, Configurate, Conflate, Conformate, Conglaciate, Conglobulate, Connate, Connate-perfoliate, Connotate, Conquadrate, Conquassate, Considerate, Consolate, Conspurcate, Constate, Constipate, Constuprate, Consulate, Contemperate, Conterminate, Contiguate, Continuate, Contortuplicate, Contraindicate, Contrate, Contristate, Contriturate, Conviciate, Convocate, Cooperate, Cooptate, Copesmate, Copperplate, Cordate, Corniculate, Corradiate, Corrivate, Corrodiate, Coruscate, Costellate, Counterirritate, Counterponderate, Crebricostate, Crebrisulcate, Cremate, Crenelate, Crepitate, Cribrate, Criminate, Cristate, Croconate, Cruentate, Cryohydrate, Cryptobranchiate, Cultivate, Cumulate, Cupulate, Curate, Curtate, Curvicaudate, Curvicostate, Curvidentate, Cyanate, Cyanurate, Cyclobranchiate, Dealbate, Deambulate, Dearticulate, Debacchate, Debellate, Debilitate, Debulliate, Decantate, Decapitate, Decarbonate, Decemdentate, Decemvirate, Deciduate, Decimate, Declinate, Decollate, Deconcentrate, Deconsecrate, Decorate, Decorticate, Decurionate, Dedecorate, Defatigate, Defibrinate, deflate, Deflorate, Deglutinate, Dehonestate, Dehydrate, Dehydrogenate, Deintegrate, Deitate, Dejerate, Delectate. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: racemate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-m-r-t" | |
-1 letter: acerate, amreeta, camerae, cremate. | |
-2 letters: aerate, amerce, amtrac, camera, carate, cerate, cermet, create, ecarte, raceme, ramate, remate, reteam, tarmac. | |
-3 letters: aceta, ameer, areae, areca, arete, armet, carat, caret, carte, cater, crate, cream, creme, eater, erect, macer, mater, meter, metre, ramee, ramet, react, reata, recta, remet, retem, tamer, terce, trace. | |
-4 letters: acme, acre, acta, area, atma, came, care, cart, cate, cere, cete, cram, maar, mace, marc, mare, mart, mate, meat, meet, mere, meta, mete, race, rate, ream, rete, tace, tame, tare, team, tear, teem, term, tram, tree. | |
-5 letters: ace, act, ama, arc, are, arm, art, ate, cam, car, cat, cee, ear, eat, eme, era, ere, eta, mac, mae, mar, mat, met, ram, rat, rec, ree, rem, ret, tae, tam, tar, tea, tee. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-m-r-t" | |
+1 letter: demarcate, macerated, macerates, racemates. | |
+2 letters: bacteremia, demarcated, demarcates. | |
+3 letters: antechamber, bacteremias, macrogamete, marketplace, spermatheca. | |
+4 letters: aerenchymata, aeromagnetic, antechambers, cabinetmaker, macrogametes, marketplaces, merchantable, metacercaria, metathoraces, methacrylate, reattachment, spermathecae. | |
+5 letters: adrenalectomy, ascertainment, cabinetmakers, megakaryocyte, metacercariae, metacercarial, metamerically, methacrylates, reacclimatize, reattachments, recontaminate, remanufacture, saccharimeter, saccharometer, sclerodermata. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 63 65 72 61 74 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -.-. . .-. .- - . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100011 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a c e r a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0063 0065 0072 0061 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767697184678671 |
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