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Macerating
- verb - become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking; "the tissue macerated in the water"
- cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
- separate into constituents by soaking
- soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result; "macerate peaches"; "the gizzards macerates the food in the digestive system"
Maceration
- noun - extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
- softening due to soaking or steeping
Macerative
- adjective - accompanied by or characterized by maceration; "macerative degeneration of the liver"
Macquarie
- unknown - Australian colonial administrator
Maculating
- verb - make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
- spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
Maculation
- noun - a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"
- the act of spotting or staining something
Maculatory
- - Causing a spot or stain.
Mad Hatter
- unknown - Lewis Carroll’s character
Derives from mercury use in 19c hatters -which caused madness
Madagascan
- adjective - a native or inhabitant of Madagascar
- of or relating to Madagascar or its people; "Madagascan pepper"