seasoning

Plural: seasonings

Noun

• something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts
• the act of adding a seasoning to food
• Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
• Anything added to increase enjoyment.
• Adding a layer of fat to render the surface of cookware non-stick.
• An alcoholic intoxication.
• In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
• The air drying of wood.

Verb

• lend flavor to
• make fit
• make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
• present participle and gerund of season

Examples

• Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”

Synonyms

flavor, flavorer, flavoring, flavour, flavourer, flavouring, harden, mollify, season, seasoner, temper, drunkenness, seasoning

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