macerate

To start, macerate the tomatoes in sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice and cornstarch, then drain the excess juices in a separate bowl.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2022

Jukes used organic apple cider vinegar to macerate fruits and other flavors he routinely identifies in wines.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022

Others we macerate, often with vanilla or cardamom, but this week it’s been fennel seeds and lemon.

From The Guardian ● May 31, 2019

Rather than allow the grape juice to macerate for long with the pigment-bearing skins, as they would a red wine, producers whisk away the skins after the juice has absorbed the preferred amount of color.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2018

They macerate and digest the leaves, and aid in mixing the decomposed matter with the surface soil.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Juice from the white grapes macerates with the skins as with red wines, absorbing tannins and pigment depending on the length of the maceration.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022

It was labeled “skin contact,” indicated the white was made like a red, in which the grape juice macerates with the pigment-laden skins before and during fermentation.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

W. C. Fields, looking worn-&-torn but as noble as Stone Mountain, macerates a boozy song around his cigar butt and puts on his achingly funny pool exhibition with warped cues.

From Time Magazine Archive

It also has an attachment which macerates the nuts so as to produce "nut butter."

From The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed. by Florence Daniel

Poultices are emollient and sedative, but their protracted use, as of all aqueous applications, macerates and weakens the skin, and tends to perpetuate the disease or cause boils.

From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Gordon Stables

She ran in place, holding hands with her stepmother, who kept slipping on the macerated mixture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

Layer with almond biscotti or ladyfingers, swirl in apricot jam or fresh macerated peaches and finish with a honey drizzle and toasted almonds on top.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025

Sitting in the clubhouse, a still soaked MacIntyre gawped at the TV screen, clattered his macerated hands together in applause, and mouthed "wow" as his dream died.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

The secret plant parts are macerated and then aged with pure distilled alcohol in oak barrels for five years before being bottled.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

As she confided in her diary, the breakup of her previous engagement had left her “mangled and torn and castigated and macerated in soul.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

The Kōloa team tried macerating coconuts of all ages and varieties.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2021

To make red wine, the producer begins by macerating the juice of the grapes with the pigment-bearing skins.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2020

Other methods exist, notably vapor infusion, whereby the botanicals, rather than macerating in the alcohol and water, are hung above, in sieves or baskets, through which the steam ascends.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019

“It goes with everything; it’s refreshing, it gets better with a few days macerating time, it’s soft and crunchy, it’s healthy,” Kreuther says.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 16, 2019

Tonquin Pomade, and Tonquin Oil, are prepared by macerating the ground Tonquin beans in either melted fat or warm oil, from twelve to twenty-eight hours, in the proportion of Tonquin beans, 1/2 lb.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse