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

Pour sugar over apricots and let stand for a few hours to macerate.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2020

On the extreme end, Gravner and Radikon macerate for many months, depending on the vintage.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2020

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

From The Guardian ● May 31, 2019

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

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

But beside the reproductive cells and tissues hydra has developed a very simple digestive system, in which the newly caught food at least macerates and begins to be dissolved.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 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

To keep the shortcakes from turning soggy, the berries are briefly macerated before baking, which keeps them from weeping into the pastry.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

I love serving it simply with fresh, roasted, macerated or sauteed seasonal fruit.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023

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

But many growers have recently found that by macerating the juice and the skins of the grapes for shorter periods, they can make fresher, more elegant wines that are vibrant and lively.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2022

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

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2021

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

The tubers contain a great amount of starch, which is obtained by rasping them and macerating four or five days in water, when the fecula separates in the same manner as sago.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders