Definition of "macerate" in English

verb

1. To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.

2. To reduce solids to small pieces (in a macerator).

3. (archaic) To make lean; to cause to waste away.

   • Baal scuttles with ten tails Between as many legs as he could carry— Perhaps Thomas poking through the holes And finding resolution beyond the scales And incorporeal pain of the hammered Messiah,

4. (obsolete) To subdue the appetite by poor or scanty diet; to mortify.

5. (obsolete) To mortify the flesh in general.

6. (obsolete) past participle of macerate

noun

1. A macerated substance.