marinating

Verb

marinate (third-person singular simple present marinates, present participle marinating, simple past and past participle marinated)

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.
2. (ambitransitive) To allow a substance to be absobed into the hair or scalp.
   • oblucy:
     "vinegar... to marinate the scalp...
     oil... to lubricate the scalp..."1992 September 3, Laura Potler (GSFC), “own private idaho”, in alt.peeves (Usenet)
3. (ambitransitive) Of a substance, to absorb into the hair or scalp.
   • a rejuvenating oil you use to saturate your hair and let it marinate from 15 minutes to 2 hours2003 November 22, fig, “I met THE Philip B. today!”, in alt.fashion (Usenet)
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!

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