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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

maceratio

: cf. F.

macération

The act or process of macerating.

Noun.

The act or the process of making thin or lean by wearing away, or by mortification.

The act, process or operation of softening and almost dissolving by steeping in a fluid.

The saliva serves for the maceration and dissolution of the meat into chyle.

See also: macération

maceration ‎(plural macerations)

The act or process of macerating.
- The Armored Dinosaurs edited by Kenneth Carpenter 2001 google print ref
  ... proposed that the small size of the teeth ... implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.

act or process of macerating