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MARINATED
Definition of MARINATED
verb
simple past and past participle of marinate
verb
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.
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Word DNA
MARINATED inherits its ancestry from its root, MARINATE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,647)
How it is built
Same root, MARINATE · 2 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MARINATED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MARINATED starts with M and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AADEIMNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start MARINA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found MARINATED?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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