maceration

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It’s a culinary technique — a savory maceration, where the tomatoes release their juices, mingling with basil and salt, becoming something electric.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2025

The "maceration" of the sewage that was being pumped out along the outfall pipe was, they said, not treatment, and it would be washed back in to Scarborough's bays.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2022

They leach into the wine during pressing, maceration and fermentation of the juice.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

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

If the condition continue, the increased perspiration and moisture of the parts give rise to maceration of the epidermis and a mucoid discharge; actual inflammation may eventually result.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman