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freeze-dry
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb freeze-dry has 1 sense
- freeze-dry(v = verb.change) Array - preserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum; "freeze-dry the strawberries" is one way to keep, preserve
Sample sentence:
The chefs freeze-dry the vegetables
CIDE DICTIONARY
freeze-dry, v. t.
to remove the moisture from (e.g. food) by first freezing and then subjecting to a high vacuum; -- used as a mild method for drying foods or chemicals while causing little decomposition, in contrast to heat-drying.
"This is a relatively gently drying process used to preserve food or sensitive biological materials. For biochemical materials, the term lyophilize
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