marinate
/ˈmæɹɪneɪt/ verb B2- 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 absorbed 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!
He/she/it marinates · Past marinated · Past participle marinated · -ing form marinating
Verb forms
- Base form
- marinate
- He/she/it
- marinates
- Past
- marinated
- Past participle
- marinated
- -ing form
- marinating
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