maceration
Example Sentences
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The residues are sorted, ground and mixed with a maceration of gum arabic to facilitate ignition, and with clay to slow combustion.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
The "maceration" of the sewage that was being pumped out along the outfall pipe was, they said, not treatment, and it would be washed back in to Scarborough's bays.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2022
People throw around phrases like "carbonic maceration" and "Ella, that's not a sample."
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2022
They leach into the wine during pressing, maceration and fermentation of the juice.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
The leaves are a mass of fibre, of great strength, which admits of preparation either by boiling or maceration, no perceptible difference as to quality or colour being apparent after heckling.
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis
