marinate
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Etymology
Likely from French marinade "a pickle for fish or meat, generally of wine and vinegar with herbs and spices,", from French mariner "to pickle in sea brine", from Old French marin (adj.) "of the sea," from Latin marinus "of the sea," from Latin mare "sea, the sea" from Proto-Indo-European *móri "the sea".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmæɹɪneɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
marinate (third-person singular simple present marinates, present participle marinating, simple past and past participle marinated)
- (ergative) 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.
- (intransitive) Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time
Derived terms
Translations
soak in marinade
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