Word Meanings - MACERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
weaken, enervate; cf. Gr. 1. To make lean; to cause to waste away. Harvey. 2. To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify. Baker. 3. To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts
Additional info about word: MACERATE
weaken, enervate; cf. Gr. 1. To make lean; to cause to waste away. Harvey. 2. To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify. Baker. 3. To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MACERATE)
- Immerse
- Dip
- plunge
- sink
- soak
- steep
- macerate
- duck
- submerge
- drown
- inundate
- douse
- overwhelm
- Soak
- Wet
- drench
- moisten
- Soften
- Mollify
- palliate
- compose
- mitigate
- assuage
- dulcify
- lenity
- yield
- humanize
- abate
- moderate
- Steep Dip
- immerse
- imbue
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MACERATE)
Related words: (words related to MACERATE)
- ARIDITY
1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris. - VENTILATE
brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a - ABATER
One who, or that which, abates. - HUMANIZE
To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (more info) 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business - IMMERSE
1. To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge. Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave. J Warton. More than a mile immersed within the wood. Dryden. 2. To baptize by immersion. - ABATE
1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay. 2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate - YIELDABLE
Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall. - STEEPLE
A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles - EXSICCATE
To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne. - STEEPLY
In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity. - YIELDANCE
1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - STEEP-DOWN
Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak. - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - YIELDING
Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. -- - MOLLIFY
1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. Spenser. 2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as - DULCIFY
To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony. Wiseman. 2. Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please. As she . . . was further dulcified by her pipe of tobacco. Hawthorne. - DROWN
To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, - PALLIATE
1. Covered with a mant Bp. Hall. 2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. Bp. Fell. - INUNDATE
pref. in- in + undare to rise in waves, to overflow, fr. unda a wave. 1. To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town. 2. To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country - YIELD
pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - STEEP
Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer. - DOUSE
To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail. (more info) 1. To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse. Bp. Stillingfleet. - INDRENCH
To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak.