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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. softening due to soaking or steeping;

2. extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease);
[syn: bonyness, boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Maceration \Mac`er*a"tion\, n. [L. maceratio: cf. F.
   mac['e]ration.]
   The act or process of macerating.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

maceration
    n 1: softening due to soaking or steeping
    2: extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
       [syn: bonyness, boniness, emaciation, gauntness,
       maceration]