marinate

verb

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.”

   “After the chicken has marinated for two hours, discard the remaining marinade.”

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..."”

   “Let your scalp marinate while you shave.”

   “Wrap a dry towel around the wet towel, and let your child's hair marinate for an hour.”

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 hours”

   “[...] hair rather than the scalp, but as always, experiment. You can also play around with how long you leave the mixture on your head — some people have better results after letting the ACV marinate for a few minutes.”

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!”

adj

1. (not-comparable, rare)Marinated.