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

Jukes used organic apple cider vinegar to macerate fruits and other flavors he routinely identifies in wines.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 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

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

A believer who flagellates or "macerates" himself today arouses more wonder and fear than emulation.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James

It also has an attachment which macerates the nuts so as to produce "nut butter."

From The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed. by Florence Daniel

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

I also scaled far back on the sugar for the macerated berries, letting the vinegar play a more starring role.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2023

To keep the shortcakes from turning soggy, the berries are briefly macerated before baking, which keeps them from weeping into the pastry.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

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

As with the other two wines, the color was achieved by macerating the red grapes with their skins just long enough to reach the desired shades.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021

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

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

As already stated, it is not intended to lay down definitely that, e.g., horizontal grooving alone should be cut on macerating rolls.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan