marinate

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.

Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time.

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!

Marinated.