maceration Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun softening due to soaking or steeping
  2. noun extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
    gauntness; bonyness; emaciation; boniness.

WordNet

Mac`er*a"tion noun
Etymology
L. maceratio: cf. F. macération.
Definitions
  1. The act or process of macerating.

Webster 1913