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marinate

Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹɪneɪt/

The English word “marinate” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

  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.
  2. To allow a substance to be absobed into the hair or scalp.
  3. Of a substance, to absorb into the hair or scalp.
  4. Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time.
  5. Especially of a haircut, to settle in and for one to get used to it.

adjective

  1. Marinated.

Etymology

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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