Macerated - English meaning

verb

Fill; pervade.

Usage examples:

Her work is infused with an anger born of pain and oppression

verb

To cause someone or something to take in and be filled with a quality or a condition of mind

Usage examples:

His landscape paintings were infused with a warm, subtle light.

verb

Make or become liquid.

Usage examples:

The minimum pressure required to liquefy a gas

verb

To become or make something liquid

Usage examples:

[ i ] gases liquefy under pressure.

verb

Reduce (food or other substance) to a soft mass by crushing it.

Usage examples:

Mash the beans to a paste

noun

A soft mass made by crushing a substance into a pulp, sometimes with the addition of liquid.

Usage examples:

Pound the garlic to a mash

noun

Compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

noun

A soft, wet, shapeless mass of material.

Usage examples:

Boiling with soda will reduce your peas to pulp

verb

Crush into a soft, wet, shapeless mass.

Usage examples:

Bales of waste paper were chopped, shredded, and pulped

noun

A soft, wet mass, often produced by crushing something

Usage examples:

Mash the bananas to a pulp and then mix in the yogurt., wood pulp

verb

Make or allow (something) to become thoroughly wet by immersing it in liquid.

Usage examples:

Soak the beans overnight in water

noun

An act of immersing someone or something in liquid for a period of time.

Usage examples:

I'm looking forward to a long soak in the bath

verb

Submerge in a liquid

verb

Make or become soft or softer.

Usage examples:

Plant extracts to soften and moisturize the skin

verb

To become gentle, or to make something less forceful or loud

Usage examples:

[ t ] he made an effort to soften his tone., congress will move to soften the law’s impact., [ i ] …

verb

If demand, a price, a market, etc. softens, it stops increasing or it goes down

Usage examples:

Share prices softened with continued worries about the country's economic recovery., although deman…

verb

Crush or squeeze (something) with force so that it becomes flat, soft, or out of shape.

Usage examples:

Wash and squash the cans before depositing them

noun

A state of being squeezed or forced into a small or restricted space.

Usage examples:

It was a bit of a squash but he didn't seem to mind

noun

An edible gourd, the flesh of which may be cooked and eaten as a vegetable.

Usage examples:

There's much more beta carotene in traditional crops, from leafy green vegetables to squashes, melo…

adjective

(of a slope, flight of stairs, or angle) rising or falling sharply; almost perpendicular.

Usage examples:

She pushed the bike up the steep hill

noun

A steep mountain slope.

Usage examples:

Hair-raising steeps

verb

Soak (food or tea) in water or other liquid so as to extract its flavour or to soften it.

Usage examples:

The chillies are steeped in olive oil