English Dictionary

macerate

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmæs.ə.ɹeɪt/

動詞

古語 廃用

To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid. / (archaic) To make lean; to cause to waste away.

日本語の意味

液体に漬けることで物質を柔らかくしたり、分解させたりする / （古語）痩せさせる、またはやせ細らせる

To prepare the jam, she allowed the strawberries to macerate in sugar and lemon juice for an hour.

ジャムを作るために、彼女はイチゴを砂糖とレモン汁に1時間浸して柔らかくした。

意味（1）

To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.

意味（2）

(archaic) To make lean; to cause to waste away.

Baal scuttles with ten tails Between as many legs as he could carry— Perhaps Thomas poking through the holes And finding resolution beyond the scales And incorporeal pain of the hammered Messiah, Immaculately macerated God.

意味（3）

(obsolete) To subdue the appetite by poor or scanty diet; to mortify.

意味（4）

(obsolete) To mortify the flesh in general.

“My dear child, how are you employed?” I knew the voice of the Superior, and I replied, “My father, I was sleeping.” “And I was macerating myself at the foot of the altar for you, my child,—the scourge is red with my blood.” I returned no answer, for I felt the maceration was better merited by the betrayer than the betrayed.

macerates （ present singular third-person ）

macerating （ participle present ）

macerated （ participle past ）

macerated （ past ）