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Noun: maceration  ,ma-su'rey-shun
  1. Softening due to soaking or steeping
     
  2. Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
    - bonyness, boniness, emaciation, gauntness

Derived forms: macerations

Type of: leanness, softening, spareness, thinness

Encyclopedia: Maceration

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