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

If you allow the juice to instead macerate with the skins, as you would a red, it picks up an amber tinge and some tannins, depending on how long the maceration lasts.

From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2020

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 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

Ordinary people may use a nut-mill, which flakes, not macerates, the nuts.

From Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses by Florence Daniel

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

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

Chilaquiles made with lightly toasted corn tortillas and salsa verde; Denver omelets studded with peppers and cubed ham; oatmeal topped with a pat of butter, macerated fruit and too much cinnamon.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2022

The secret plant parts are macerated and then aged with pure distilled alcohol in oak barrels for five years before being bottled.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

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

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

When we first meet her, Roberta has been macerating for years.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2019

This wine is modern, in that it shows depth and extraction that suggest techniques of macerating the grapes on the skins, but, well, never mind — it’s delicious.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019

A red can also be produced by macerating red-sanders in rectified spirits of naphtha.

From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Richard Bitmead