as in to soak
to wet thoroughly with liquid
garnished with cherries that had been macerated in liqueur
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Recent Examples of macerate
For an elevated dessert, drizzle over vanilla ice cream and top with cut or macerated strawberries or peaches.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
Cover the bowl loosely with a clean tea towel and leave the fruit and cucumber mix to macerate for 20 minutes or so.
—Nicole Hvidsten, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025
Today all Amouage fragrances continue to be formulated, blended, macerated, and bottled by hand at the Muscat manufacturing facility.
—Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 1 Aug. 2025
The harvest date was September 28, 2022, and all grapes were picked by hand, then fermented using indigenous yeast and macerated for 19 days on the skins.
—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 17 July 2025
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
Cover the bowl loosely with a clean tea towel and leave the fruit and cucumber mix to macerate for 20 minutes or so.
—Nicole Hvidsten, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025
Today all Amouage fragrances continue to be formulated, blended, macerated, and bottled by hand at the Muscat manufacturing facility.
—Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 1 Aug. 2025
The harvest date was September 28, 2022, and all grapes were picked by hand, then fermented using indigenous yeast and macerated for 19 days on the skins.
—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 17 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for macerate
Verb
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Usually, one of those socks ends up inside the twisted sheet, and both come out of the dryer soaking wet.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
3 Nov. 2025
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His fiction, neither notably blood-soaked nor mythologically freighted, also differs starkly from the work of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy, contemporaries who likewise were famously steeped in the West.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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We’re saturated with incoherence — fragmented media, endless information, constant moral redefinition.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Oct. 2025
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In 1816 the stratosphere was saturated with Tambora’s dust, and sea ice nearly wrecked Scoresby’s ship off the eastern coast of Greenland.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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When the bodies of the drowned are retrieved, they’re sent to Alexandroupoli to be identified.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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In an effort to save their relationship, Smith drowned her two young sons.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Macerate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/macerate. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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