Crossword clues for seasoned
seasoned
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Season \Sea"son\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seasoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Seasoning.]
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To render suitable or appropriate; to prepare; to fit.
He is fit and seasoned for his passage.
--Shak. To fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
To fit for taste; to render palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food.
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Hence, to fit for enjoyment; to render agreeable.
You season still with sports your serious hours.
--Dryden.The proper use of wit is to season conversation.
--Tillotson. To qualify by admixture; to moderate; to temper. ``When mercy seasons justice.''
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To imbue; to tinge or taint. ``Who by his tutor being seasoned with the love of the truth.''
--Fuller.Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles.
--Jer. Taylor. To copulate with; to impregnate. [R.]
--Holland.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "flavored, spiced," past participle adjective from season (v.). Meaning "fit for use" is from 1540s; that of "acclimatized, accustomed" is from 1640s.
Wiktionary
experienced, especially in terms of a profession or a hobby v
(en-past of: season)
WordNet
adj. aged or processed; "seasoned wood" [ant: unseasoned]
having been given flavor (as by seasoning) [syn: flavored, flavoured]
rendered competent through trial and experience; "troops seasoned in combat"; "a seasoned traveler"; "veteran steadiness"; "a veteran officer" [syn: veteran(a)]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "seasoned".
The Qorma-i Tarkari, a dish of cauliflower, carrots and potatoes topped with lamb sauce and seasoned with turmeric, cumin, saffron and dill over basmati rice, was delicious.
Split and broil a fresh mackerel and serve with melted butter, seasoned with anchovy paste.
Arrange upon it the fillets of four fresh mackerel, skinned and seasoned with salt and pepper.
He was also the first to concoct wine seasoned with mastich and with pennyroyal and all such mixtures, which our present luxury retains.
Criminal profiling will never take the place of a thorough and wellplanned investigation nor will it ever eliminate the seasoned, highly trained, and skilled detective.
Roman remorselessness in war, and feeling the pinch of those quarter-million seasoned troops he had lost in the Caucasus on a pointless punitive expedition against the Albanian savages who had raided Colchis.
Dredge squirrel in seasoned flour and saut in hor fat until brown on all sides.
They both had shashlik, chunks of seasoned lamb grilled on a skewer, like Turkish shish kebab.
He was now a seasoned showman, after something less than three days under canvas.
The tappy waved his hand at a small boy who scurried out from behind a folding screen with a tray of the richly seasoned pies.
And against this pitiable state of disarmament and unpreparedness was brought a force of a hundred thousand well armed, seasoned warriors with engines of destruction that were unknown to Earth Men.
British New Army could attack unremittingly and successfully against seasoned German troops in positions which the Germans had considered impregnable.
Stuff a large whitefish with seasoned crumbs, put into a buttered baking-pan, rub with butter, dredge with seasoned flour, add one cupful of Claret, and bake.
I tried to protect myself, but I am only a fat whoremaster, while the Warden was a seasoned campaigner.
The New York JTTF, which partnered seasoned detectives like Napoli with FBI agents like Anticev, became a prototype for sixty-five similar units around the country.