Definition of "marinating" []

• Present participle of marinate. (verb)

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• "The ubiquitous bisteces (beefsteaks) are nearly always cut from a non-marbled piece of meat and marinating is highly recommended."
• "Longer marinating is inadvisable, since the lime juice will begin to "cook" the fish."
• "I experiment with his trick of "deflaming" the onion by rinsing it under cold water before using it, and then hit upon the idea of marinating it briefly in lime juice, which takes away some of its bite without diluting the flavour."