marinate

About 0.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb 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.

2. verb To allow a substance to be absorbed into the hair or scalp. Of a substance, to absorb into the hair or scalp.
3. verb To allow a substance to be absorbed into the hair or scalp.
4. verb Of a substance, to absorb into the hair or scalp.
5. verb Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time.
6. verb 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!

7. adjective Marinated.

Similar words

marinade marinate on imbibe marinize soak infuse aromatize soak up sauce season

Often followed by

for in the at overnight it chicken them meat

Word family

marinated marinates marinating marination marinations