to freeze-dry
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4.4
- verb
- /friz draɪ/
- Specialized
:
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- I freeze-dry it.
- freeze-dried food
If she wants to sprout and ferment and freeze or freeze dry or whatever it is.
- If she wants to sprout and ferment and freeze or freeze dry or whatever it is.
Examples
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He and colleagues removed the coating and made it into an extract, which they freeze-dried.
Academic text (2000) -
The Andean peoples learned to freeze-dry foods by taking advantage of the daily extremes of temperature.
Academic text (2002) -
The last time we did this, we freeze dried a bunch of candy, but this time we're going to be freeze drying food.
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But I got a friend back in Juarez who knows how to freeze-dry these things.
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Once your goldfish has become a little ball of energy again, feed it live or freeze-dried foods for one week.
Blog text (20) -
PHOTO (COLOR): Glomalin, extracted from undisturbed Nebraska soil and then freeze-dried.
Academic text (2002) -
Instead of eating army rations, freeze-dried food that all tasted the same, he ate homemade fig preserves and peanut butter that his grandmother sent him.
Fiction book (1995) -
The scientists decided to freeze-dry the samples to preserve their quality for future testing.
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To prepare for their camping trip, they freeze-dried various fruits and vegetables.
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She learned how to freeze-dry meals so they would last longer without refrigeration.
Synonyms
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1.0
To become free of water or wetness
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3.2
To stop food from going bad so it lasts longer
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9.0
To dry something so it does not go bad
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4.8
Remove almost all water from food to keep it for longer
To remove water from something by freezing it and lowering pressure so the ice turns to gas
How Preserved
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Morphology
Etymology
Freeze-dry comes from joining freeze ('to make very cold') and dry ('to remove water'). It describes the process of first freezing something and then taking away its water so it stays light and lasts a long time.