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Macerate

To make lean; to cause to waste away.

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Debilitate 76% connected

To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.

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Drain 76% connected

To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.

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Enfeeble 76% connected

To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Soften 76% connected

To make soft or more soft.

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Maceration 74% connected

The act or process of macerating.

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Maceration 74% connected

The act or process of macerating.

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Wastage 74% connected

Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

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Wastage 74% connected

Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

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Wasting 74% connected

of Waste

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Wasting 74% connected

of Waste

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Douse 72% connected

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.

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Dowse 72% connected

To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.

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Drench 72% connected

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

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Soak 72% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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Sop 72% connected

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

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Souse 72% connected

A corrupt form of Sou.

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Causes 1

Emaciate 72% connected

To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.

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Synonym 2

Emaciate 92% connected

To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.

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Waste 92% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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