Usually means: Soak food in flavorful liquid.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. marinate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. marinate: Merriam-Webster
  3. marinate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. marinate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. marinate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. marinate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Marinate: Wordnik
  8. marinate: Dictionary.com
  9. marinate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. marinate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Marinate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Marinate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. marinate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. marinate: Rhymezone
  15. Marinate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. marinate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. marinate: FreeDictionary.org
  18. marinate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. marinate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. marinate: Wiktionary
  21. marinate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  22. marinate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  23. marinate: Infoplease Dictionary
  24. Marinate: Dictionary.com
  25. marinate: Wordnik
  26. marinate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. marinate, marinate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. marinate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See marinated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive) Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time
verb:  (figurative, informal) Especially of a haircut, to settle in and for (someone) to get used to it.

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