marinate

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For Siew Yuk (crispy roast pork), a few hours or an overnight marinate is all the time you need to infuse the meat with flavour.

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  1. transitive verb To soak (meat, for example) in a marinade.
  2. intransitive verb To become marinated.

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  • I like to work for a few hours and then let the piece kind of "marinate" in my home, where I can casually interact with it and decide how I want to go forward. —  Blisstree
  • For Siew Yuk (crispy roast pork), a few hours or an overnight marinate is all the time you need to infuse the meat with flavour. —  Stabroek News
  • Personally, I don't care what women wear as long as they don't marinate themselves in it. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Close bag securely and marinate in refrigerator 15 minutes to 2 hours.
  • The longer you let the meat marinate the better; 24 hours is good.
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  1. Probably from Italian marinato, past participle of marinare, to marinate; see marinade.

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  1. Var. of marinade, v., as if from marine + -ate.
 

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/ˈmærɪneɪt/
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