"maceration" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Latin maceratio.",
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      "form": "macerations",
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          "word": "cryomaceration"
        }
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          "ref": "2001, Ralph E. Molnar, H. Trevor Clifford, “An Ankylosaurian Cololite from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia”, in Kenneth Carpenter, editor, The Armored Dinosaurs, page 404",
          "text": "[…] proposed that the small size of the teeth […] implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.",
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        "The act or process of macerating."
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "maserointi"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "macération"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "maceración"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "maceramento"
        },
        {
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          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "atmiekšķēšana"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
          "word": "maceración"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "maceration"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
          "word": "maserasyon"
        }
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      "ipa": "/mæsəˈɹeɪʃən/"
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      "rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
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  "word": "maceration"
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  "etymology_text": "Latin maceratio.",
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      "form": "macerations",
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "act or process of macerating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maserointi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "act or process of macerating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "macération"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "act or process of macerating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maceración"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act or process of macerating",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "maceramento"
    },
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      "sense": "act or process of macerating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atmiekšķēšana"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "act or process of macerating",
      "word": "maceración"
    },
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      "sense": "act or process of macerating",
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      ],
      "word": "maceration"
    },
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "act or process of macerating",
      "word": "maserasyon"
    }
  ],
  "word": "maceration"
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