marinate.
To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.
Meaning & usage
To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.
You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.
After the chicken has marinated for two hours, discard the remaining marinade.
To allow a substance to be absobed into the hair or scalp.
Of a substance, to absorb into the hair or scalp.
Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time.
Especially of a haircut, to settle in and for one to get used to it.
It's not a bad haircut! You just got to let it marinate!
Where this word comes from
First attested in 1645; adapted from either French mariner or the earlier attested Italian marinare (“to pickle, marinate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Late Latin marina (“brine, salt water”), short for aqua marina (“sea water”), from Latin marinus (“marine, of the sea”), from Latin mare (“the sea”) from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“the sea”).
Marinated.
Where this word comes from
First attested in 1645; adapted from either French mariner or the earlier attested Italian marinare (“to pickle, marinate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Late Latin marina (“brine, salt water”), short for aqua marina (“sea water”), from Latin marinus (“marine, of the sea”), from Latin mare (“the sea”) from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“the sea”).
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