macerate
verb (used with object)
to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
macerates
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present tense formof macerate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Juice from the white grapes macerates with the skins as with red wines, absorbing tannins and pigment depending on the length of the maceration.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022
It was labeled “skin contact,” indicated the white was made like a red, in which the grape juice macerates with the pigment-laden skins before and during fermentation.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
W. C. Fields, looking worn-&-torn but as noble as Stone Mountain, macerates a boozy song around his cigar butt and puts on his achingly funny pool exhibition with warped cues.
From Time Magazine Archive
But beside the reproductive cells and tissues hydra has developed a very simple digestive system, in which the newly caught food at least macerates and begins to be dissolved.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
Ordinary people may use a nut-mill, which flakes, not macerates, the nuts.
From Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses by Florence Daniel
