macerated

verb

Definition of maceratednext
past tense of macerate
as in soaked
to wet thoroughly with liquid garnished with cherries that had been macerated in liqueur

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  1. soaked
  2. drowned
  3. impregnated
  4. drenched
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  • Sun-soaked and beautiful, the film takes place in Santa Barbara in 1979, where Dorothea (Annette Bening) is trying to raise her son (Lucas Jade Zumann) in an ever-changing world.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • More than an inch of rain over several days soaked the grounds making muddy hills slippery and dangerous, forcing most spectators onto the narrow walkways and creating huge, impassable (and in some places, scary) bottlenecks.
    Candace Oehler, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of soaked
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  • The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Things not only got hot, the blazing solar plasma drowned out communications with Earth.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of drowned
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  • There are, miraculously enough, two 2024 horror films about an American nun who joins a convent in Italy where she’s impregnated with something unholy as part of an evil Church plot.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Instead, the narrative focuses on Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), a factory worker in the wake of World War I who is impregnated by her rich boss and then discarded after his mother disapproves.
    Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of impregnated
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  • Abraham was alone, drenched in white and walking, as small shudders passed through his body.
    Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • You're just drenched in sweat under all your fur coats.
    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of drenched
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