[TigersEye]

marinading

mar·i·nade

[n. mar-uh-neyd; v. mar-uh-neyd] Show IPA noun

1. a seasoned liquid, usually of vinegar or wine with oil, herbs, spices, etc., in which meat, fish, vegetables, etc., are steeped before cooking.

2. meat, fish, vegetables, etc., steeped in it. verb (used with object), mar·i·nad·ed, mar·i·nad·ing.

3. to marinate.

Origin: 1675–85; < French < Provençal marinado, noun use of feminine past participle of mariná to cure meat or fish in brine, verbal derivative of marin marine

Can be confused: marinade, marinate.

[driftless2]

I stand corrected.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Marinade is a noun. Marinate is the verb. Never heard it any other way. Probably latter 20th cent American caving to some wrongs. Just as they caved to “snuck”.