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English noun: maceration

1. maceration (process) softening due to soaking or steeping


Broader (hypernym)softening

2. maceration (attribute) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)


Synonymsboniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness


Broader (hypernym)leanness, spareness, thinness









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