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Definition of maceration : The act or process of macerating.

Synonyms:

bonyness, boniness, gauntness, emaciation

Usage examples:

• The fibres of the stems may be separated by maceration, and manufactured into cordage or cloth; and this is said to be done in some parts of the north and west of France, as about Hagenau, where this plant, on the poor sandy soils, is an object of field culture. - "The Book of Household Management", Mrs. Isabella Beeton.
• At the very height of the Gray charge, when all the reserves were in, dark objects fell out of the heavens, and where they dropped earth and flesh were mingled in the maceration. - "The Last Shot", Frederick Palmer.
• A nerve loses its characteristic property of conduction on drying or maceration while luminous cells still possess the power to luminesce after drying or maceration. - "The Nature of Animal Light", E. Newton Harvey.