Maceration

/mæsəˈɹeɪʃən/

Synonyms for "maceration" (41 found)

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Closest matches (9)

abstinence asceticism austerity brewingday of atonementdigestion drench

Noun(2 words)

boniness bonyness

Strong matches (12)

drenching dunking fasting flagellation impregnation infiltration injection monasticism

Noun(4 words)

emaciation gauntness infusion macerating

Related words (20)

mortification penance penitence percolation permeation purgation purgatory repentance rigorsackcloth and ashessaturation seething self-denial soak sopping souseyom kippur

Noun(3 words)

soaking steeping vatting

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

7 entries

extraction leanness process softening spareness technique thinness

More specific

2 entries

alcohol macerationcold maceration

Collocations

6 entries

cold macerationethanol macerationmaceration processmaceration solventmaceration timetissue maceration

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

5 entries

macerate macerative maceratively macerator maceratory

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

[…] proposed that the small size of the teeth […] implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.

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