make wet/soft, soak/steep/bathe; soften; wear down, exhaust
Latin word, found 58 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Heroides 20.125: Maceror interdum, quod sim tibi causa dolendi
Horace, Carmina 1.13.8: quam lentis penitus macerer ignibus.
Horace, Epodi 14.16: contenta, Phryne macerat.
All forms of macero