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maceration

noun as in softening

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A brief maceration coaxes out the fruit’s sweet-tart juices, which mix with the olive oil to create the dressing.

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

Juice from the white grapes macerates with the skins as with red wines, absorbing tannins and pigment depending on the length of the maceration.

His 2018 Pinot Gris Carbonic Maceration marks a clear-cut example of one of the few times it's worthwhile to say "carbonic maceration" in front of a stranger.

From Salon

This enormous and authoritative work of scholarship, nearly a decade in the making, covers nearly every aspect of its subject matter, from absinthe spoons to maceration to the Zombie.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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