(v. t.) To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.
(v. t.) To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only one E. coli strain, containing two plasmids that encode endo-pectate lyases, exo-pectate lyase, and endo-polygalacturonase, caused limited maceration.
(2) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(3) A radiologic-pathologic correlative investigation of the normal age-related alterations in the spinous processes and intervening soft tissues was performed using cadaveric spines and both ancient and modern macerated vertebral specimens.
(4) The numbers of spoilage micro-organisms increased throughout storage at 8 degrees C. Carrots macerated in a Stomacher Lab Blender also showed an antilisterial activity which resulted in a decrease in number of viable bacteria and in sublethal damage.
(5) In an attempt to identify the remaining macerating factor(s), a gene library of UM1005 was constructed in Escherichia coli and screened for pectolytic activity.
(6) The export of pectate lyase, polygalacturonase, and cellulase and the maceration of potato tuber tissue occurred with Out+, but not Out-, strains of E. carotovora subsp.
(7) Experimental compression of the skull of the macerated fetus resulted in expulsion of the nervous tissue by way of the vertebral canal and into the retroperitoneal space along the peripheral nerves, with spreading into the adjacent tissues and in blood vessels.
(8) A series of comparative experiments were undertaken by us in order to study the influence of anionic, nonionic and amphoteric detergents on the production of ascitic fluid from macerates of Yoshida sarcoma and fibrosarcoma BUSP.
(9) The finfish livers and entrails were macerated in a Duall tissue grinder containing acetonitrile followed by partitioning of the Kepone into benzene.
(10) Of 93 macerated scapulae that were examined, foramina were observed in 27 specimens (29%).
(11) The mother had previously delivered a macerated, hydropic infant with multiple congenital anomalies.
(12) Intravascular "mulberry-like" bodies in a stillborn female infant with moderate maceration are reported.
(13) Axenic trypomastigotes from macerated gnotobiotic insects were used to infect GF and conventional (CV) mice by intraperitoneal, ocular, and oral routes.
(14) The flexion deformity at the metacarpophalangeal joints of nearly 90 degrees was not correctable passively, and the palmar skin became macerated.
(15) Because of cell maceration and autolysis, the likelihood of successful karyotype analysis of fetal tissue varies inversely with the time between fetal death and delivery.
(16) The effects of sagittal expansion with a cemented expansion appliance were studied in nine noncleft macerated human maxillae ranging from 1-10 years.
(17) The polymannoside was partially solubilized by proteolytic digestion or maceration in sodium dodecyl sulfate-urea mixtures.
(18) When the polymerisation of injected methacrylic resin was completed the specimens were exposed to either chemical or biological maceration of the tissues.
(19) One epidermal layer was scraped off and the mesophyll tissue removed from the epidermis to be studied by maceration in HNO3.
(20) After the cement had set hard, the reproductive tracts were macerated in concentrated acid and the vascular casts resulting were washed clean of digested tissues.
Subdue
Definition:
(v. t.) To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.
(v. t.) To overpower so as to disable from further resistance; to crush.
(v. t.) To destroy the force of; to overcome; as, medicines subdue a fever.
(v. t.) To render submissive; to bring under command; to reduce to mildness or obedience; to tame; as, to subdue a stubborn child; to subdue the temper or passions.
(v. t.) To overcome, as by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or entreaties.
(v. t.) To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears.
(v. t.) To make mellow; to break, as land; also, to destroy, as weeds.
(v. t.) To reduce the intensity or degree of; to tone down; to soften; as, to subdue the brilliancy of colors.
Example Sentences:
(1) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(2) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
(3) The director general of the CML, Paul Smee, said: "January is always a subdued month in the mortgage market but the underlying trend and strong year-on-year growth across all borrower groups indicates a strong start to 2014 continuing the sort of lending levels seen throughout 2013.
(4) England had started with some well-executed set piece moves, a triangular formation in midfield initially foxing Australia, but it was the Wallabies’ ability to react in open play that marked them out: Foley’s first try, after Israel Folau, otherwise subdued on the night, ran through Robshaw, came after he noticed Ben Youngs had drifted too wide and cut inside the scrum-half and Joe Launchbury before wrongfooting Brown.
(5) An investigation by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem concluded that while she did have a knife under her niqab veil she posed no threat to soldiers at the time she was shot and could have been subdued without being fatally wounded.
(6) In these cases, the woman’s wardrobe must feature subdued tones.
(7) Releasing its quarterly inflation report, the Bank's monetary policy committee admitted that the UK recession was deeper than previously thought and that inflation would stay very subdued for a long time – a signal that interest rates will not rise in the short term.
(8) He does not have the ingenuity of Diego Maradona or the lawless wit of Luis Suárez, so does not cast spells over opponents, but he has shown that he can certainly help subdue them and uplift his team.
(9) The company blamed the decline in performance on a challenging trading and competitive environment, ongoing subdued consumer sentiment and economic uncertainty, the effect of strong market capacity growth and an unrecovered $27m cost of the carbon tax.
(10) And we are hopeful that a recovery in productivity will keep firms' cost pressures subdued," its economists said in a research note.
(11) "However, one area of the market which is subdued is remortgaging – all the more surprising when you consider the excellent rates available and the threat of an interest rate rise.
(12) Examples included officers punching and using pepper spray on people who have already been subdued, including after they have been handcuffed and at times “as punishment for the person’s earlier verbal or physical resistance”.
(13) In the Alevi association, in this subdued but defiant campaign, Demirtaş looked past the cameras, his gaze static and distant, and seemed not to be there.
(14) Believing the suspect’s magazine was empty, he chased the gunman in hopes of subduing him.
(15) No, Mourinho always wants to win but the priority was certainly to hold the fort – and there is no better team in England when it comes to subduing high-calibre opponents.
(16) Forming a coalition will be challenging, while operational considerations must not be subordinate to political ones, Emile Hokayem of the International Institute for Strategic Studies told the Guardian: "A coalition in which sectarian Iraqi Shia militias play a key role because these are Baghdad's only or most reliable troops, or in which Kurdish fighters are asked to operate far from their territories, could antagonise the very constituency whose support against Isis is fundamental: the various local Sunni communities who have accommodated or been subdued by Isis."
(17) The crowd was initially subdued, having just seen Murray crash out and there were plenty of empty seats when the match began.
(18) It had begun as a subdued explosion, really, in the early 1960s, when a new generation of bohemians began to adapt and mutate the culture of the 'Beats' - Jack Kerouac et al - which had installed itself on North Beach during the late 1950s.
(19) A subdued Rosberg was in his shoulder-shrugging mood.
(20) The results indicate that the extent of DNA degradation to acid-soluble nucleotides is highest in chromatin at the early stages of gonad growth, being drastically subdued in the mature sperm cell.