FREEZE-DRY (freeze-dried)

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Irregular inflected form: freeze-dried   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does freeze-dry mean? 

• FREEZE-DRY (verb)
  The verb FREEZE-DRY has 1 sense:

1. preserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum

  Familiarity information: FREEZE-DRY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREEZE-DRY (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

freeze-dry the strawberries

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

 Context examples 

A bioadhesive gel containing 10% freeze-dried black raspberries (FBR) with potential chemopreventive and antioxidant activities.

(Freeze-dried Black Raspberry Bioadhesive Gel, NCI Thesaurus)

Test samples are freeze-dried to a powder that can be read in the field.

(Test for life-threatening nutrient deficit is made from bacteria entrails, National Science Foundation)

A probiotic containing live, cultivated, freeze-dried lactic acid bacteria with gastrointestinal (GI) protective, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulating and potential antitumor properties.

(Live Freeze-Dried Lactic Acid Bacteria Probiotic, NCI Thesaurus)

They are working on conditions to improve the survival and performance of the freeze-dried bacteria, enabling a longer shelf life.

(New Type of Battery Created from Paper, Fueled by Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Freeze-dried berry powder will absorb moisture from the premix base, improving its stability and texture to the point where the frozen dessert will keep its shape even after melting to room temperature.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

Then, they placed freeze-dried "exoelectrogens" on the paper.

(New Type of Battery Created from Paper, Fueled by Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Bilbao-Sainz became intrigued with the idea of freeze-dried fruit powders as ice cream stabilizers when an all-natural dessert maker came looking for scientific facts about them.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

The possibilities of freeze-dried fruit powder have been previously known but not technically quantified.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

Freeze-dried strawberry powder is so effective a stabilizer that frozen dairy desserts with it included will maintain their shape even after reaching room temperature, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) research food technologist Cristina Bilbao-Sainz with the Healthy Processed Foods Research Unit in Albany, California.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

We discovered that some of the freeze-dried fruit powders—especially strawberries—completely prevent the melt-down of dairy frozen desserts similar to ice cream made with whole milk, whole whipping cream, sugar and skim milk powder, Bilbao-Sainz said.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)