What is "macerated"

Usage examples of "macerated".

This stenchful mold sprouted obese fruiting bodies like giant, hairy strawberries, which, macerated in the Nurses' jaws, became the hatchlings' nutriment.

Then one of the bigeared, tufty-furred dune lemurs is plucked from the scattering bunch, and the carnal face of the thing reveals itself as the lemur is macerated in midair.

The brilliance macerated by degrees, restoring the natural illumination of Elemesnedene, allowing Linden to advance.

Now the heavens macerated from purple to blue as the sun appeared almost directly behind the Giant-ship's stern.

Now the heavens macerated from purple to blue as the sun appeared almost directly behind the Giant-ship’s stern.

Then the second souls, the ones held captive, abandoned the macerated flesh.

He swung the machine gun around on the macerated soldier and squeezed back on the trigger.

Leaves and twigs from the macerated hedges were picked up and carried along by the wind.

I could see him thinking, or picturing rather, the people he knew—his mother, his father, himself, struggling with this macerated earth reclaimed from the jungle—and the Klahari he had seen, especially the senior ones, slipping free through the jungle, flashing with jewels and feathers, tall, dark and powerful.

When they had gotten down to the macerated earth below the bodies they brought out clean leaves of fern and covered the ground there.

Its normal shape was not the grass and sun of home, but the searing white light and fern and macerated earth of Utword.

In dusk macerated only by the last gleamings along the vale rim, they pulled their raft partway up the shore and carefully eased Covenant to dry ground.

The accosted one then either shared with the beggar food she carried in her jaws, or regurgitated into the beggar's mouth the macerated nourishment she carried in her crop.

For days he has prowled thus, without pain yet feeling his own macerated body moving slowly and usefully through the shreek's entrails.