tS=The first baby, as it turned out, was small and <b>macerated</b>. She had been dead for at least eight weeks, which why the doctor could never find its heartbeat.<br><br>For dessert we had <b>macerated</b> strawberries.&tQ=<b>Macerated</b> means:&tC=Discolored|Deformed|Shriveled|Unformed|Scarred&cC=3&fB=<b>Macerated</b> means shriveled. To <b>macerate</b> is to make soft by soaking, to decompose through the use of a solvent. <b>Macerate</b> also means to waste away, usually by starvation. He spent three years in a POW camp, <b>macerated</b> by starvation and often on the verge of death. <b>Macerate</b> is pronounced MAS-uh-rayt.
