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TENDERIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenderize mean? 

TENDERIZE (verb)
  The verb TENDERIZE has 1 sense:

1. make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizerplay

  Familiarity information: TENDERIZE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TENDERIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they tenderize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it tenderizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: tenderized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: tenderized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: tenderizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

tender; tenderise; tenderize

Context example:

tenderize meat

Hypernyms (to "tenderize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

tender (easy to cut or chew)

tenderization (the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it)

tenderizer (a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender)


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