macerate

To make soft by soaking or steeping in a liquid.

To separate into constituents by soaking.

To cause to become lean, usually by starvation; emaciate.

To become soft or separated into constituents by soaking.

A substance prepared or produced by macerating.

To steep or soak almost to solution; soften and separate the parts of by steeping in a fluid, usually without heat, or by the digestive process: as, to maceratc a plant for the extraction of its medicinal properties; food is macerated in the stomach.

To make lean; cause to grow lean or to waste away.

To harass or mortify; worry; annoy.

To make lean; to cause to waste away.

To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.