maceration

from 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}]

from 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]

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