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FREEZE-DRY
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Irregular inflected form: freeze-dried
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they freeze-dry ... he / she / it freeze-dries
Past simple: freeze-dried
Past participle: freeze-dried
-ing form: freeze-drying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Preserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum
Example:
freeze-dry the strawberries
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "freeze-dry" is one way to...):
keep; preserve (prevent (food) from rotting)
"Freeze-dry" entails doing...:
dehydrate; desiccate; dry up; exsiccate (lose water or moisture)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "freeze-dry"):
lyophilise; lyophilize (to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
The chefs freeze-dry the vegetables
