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Marinate

//ˈmæɹɪneɪt// adj, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Marinated. not-comparable, rare
Verb
  1. 1
    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. ergative, transitive

    "You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first."

  2. 2
    soak in marinade wordnet
  3. 3
    Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time. intransitive
  4. 4
    Especially of a haircut, to settle in and for one to get used to it. figuratively, informal

    "It's not a bad haircut! You just got to let it marinate!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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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