Meaning

5 senses
  1. (ergative, transitive)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.

    marinieren

    маринова́тьmarinovátʹ, соли́тьsolítʹ, замаринова́тьzamarinovátʹ

    маринува́тиmarynuváty, замарино́вуватиzamarynóvuvaty, замаринува́тиzamarynuváty

    soak in marinade

  2. (ambitransitive)To allow a substance to be absobed into the hair or scalp.

  3. (ambitransitive)Of a substance, to absorb into the hair or scalp.

  4. (intransitive)Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time.

  5. (figuratively, informal)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!

Examples

17 sentences
  1. Did you marinate this meat?

    deHast du dieses Fleisch mariniert?

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  2. Are you still marinating the vegetables?

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  3. I would like marinated fish and seafood.

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  4. I fried the fish after marinating it.

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  5. He marinated the beef in soy sauce.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
By meaning 1
soak in marinade:
Deutsch
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soak in marinade:

Origin

First attested in 1645; adapted from either French mariner or the earlier attested Italian

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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Forms

marinates, marinating, marinated, marinated
Base formmarinate · to marinate
3rd person singularmarinates
Present participlemarinating
Past simplemarinated
Past participlemarinated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymarinate
he, she, itmarinates

Past simpleLesson

all personsmarinated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave marinated
he, she, ithas marinated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill marinate

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

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