Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To soak (meat, for example) in a marinade.
- intransitive verb To become marinated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar; to prepare (food) by the use of marinade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To allow a
sauce orflavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in amarinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb soak in marinade
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Studies show that exercise helps your brain marinate in powerful, positive endorphins.
Amy Ahlers: Top Ten Ways To Stay Inspired In A Tough Economy Amy Ahlers 2010
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But Wednesday, casual golf fans can once again marinate in Woods.
Networks hope Woods' return brings casual viewers back to golf 2009
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Studies show that exercise helps your brain marinate in powerful, positive endorphins.
Amy Ahlers: Top Ten Ways To Stay Inspired In A Tough Economy Amy Ahlers 2010
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Add the sliced red onion to let in marinate in the dressing.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Add the sliced red onion to let in marinate in the dressing.
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Obviously Obama is pushing back to VP disclosure as much as possible to give this time to marinate, which is a great move.
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My friends who are management consultants sometimes say they need to let ideas "marinate" -- let the breakup simmer and stew.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Khalid El Khatib 2012
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He let the idea marinate for a while and realized that it really wasn't all that bad.
unknown title 2009
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It would have been nice to let Bush's two terms marinate a while before invoking Herbert Hoover and James Buchanan from the cellar of worst presidents.
One Thousand Reasons 2008
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It would have been nice to let Bush's two terms marinate a while before invoking Herbert Hoover and James Buchanan from the cellar of worst presidents.
NYT > Opinion 2008
frindley commented on the word marinate
I have always regarded this word as a logical companion to vegetate. So where slacking around doing nothing on land is vegetating, slacking around frolicking in the pool (or other body of water) would be marinating.
April 3, 2008
plethora commented on the word marinate
I am adopting this usage, frindley
April 3, 2008
reesetee commented on the word marinate
Excellent. Consider it pilfered.
April 3, 2008