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How to pronounce maceration in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness
Type of leanness, spareness, thinness
Derivation macerate
Type Words
Type of softening
Derivation macerate

Examples of maceration

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Do not expect pontifications on malolactic fermentation or carbonic maceration.
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During the maceration period, color, flavor and tannins are extracted from the skins.
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Unlike other citrus, it has an entirely sweet pith, and thus is well suited to maceration.
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Maceration is an alternative to the use of carbon dioxide for euthanasia of day-old poultry.
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Aromatic yeast were added and maceration was extended to get more flavors from skin contact.
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Both wines were made by carbonic maceration, where whole bunches are fermented without yeast inoculation.
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Maceration lasts 15 to 20 days, depending on the varietal, and the wine then spends 13 months in French oak.
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In making Brunello di Montalcino, the longer maceration is sometimes heated to aid in bringing out more color and flavors.
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Traditionally, the wine goes through an extended maceration period where color and flavor are extracted from the skins.
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More examples
  • Softening due to soaking or steeping
  • Bonyness: extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
  • (macerate) separate into constituents by soaking
  • (macerate) become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking; "the tissue macerated in the water"
  • (macerate) waste: cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
  • (macerative) accompanied by or characterized by maceration; "macerative degeneration of the liver"
  • Maceration is a bone preparation technique whereby parts of a vertebrate corpse are left to rot inside a closed container at near-constant temperature, to get a clean skeleton. It is a form of controlled putrefaction, the decomposition of a corpse by bacteria in anaerobic conditions. ...
  • In food preparation, maceration is softening or breaking into pieces using a liquid.
  • Maceration, in sewage treatment, the use of a machine that reduces solids to small pieces in order to deal with rags and other solid waste. Also, macerating toilets, which use a grinding or blending mechanism to reduce human waste to a slurry, which can then be moved by pumping. ...