macerate

vi. 浸软, 消瘦 vt. 把...浸软, 使消瘦

发音

US /ˈmæs.ə.ɹɪt/
US /ˈmæs.ə.ɹeɪt/
其它
其它
UK /ˈmæs.ə.ɹɪt/
UK /ˈmæs.ə.ɹeɪt/

词形变化

macerates 复数 macerates macerate macerated macerates 三单 macerating macerating 现在分词 macerated 过去式 macerated 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A macerated substance.

v.
  1. 1.

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

  2. 2.

    To reduce solids to small pieces (in a macerator).

  3. 3.

    To make lean; to cause to waste away.

    古体

    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,

  4. 4.

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

    废旧
  5. 5.

    To mortify the flesh in general.

    废旧
  6. 6.

    past participle of macerate

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

foodstuff
动词

同义词 2

waste emaciate

上位词 5

separate drain soften debilitate enfeeble

词源

First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin mācerātus, perfect passive participle of mācerō (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from Proto-Indo-European *mag-, *mak- (“to knead”), whence make. Cognate with French macérer.

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