quick-freeze
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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quick-freezesimple
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quick-freezessimple
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have quick-frozenperfect
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has quick-frozenperfect
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am quick-freezingprogressive
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are quick-freezingprogressive
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is quick-freezingprogressive
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have been quick-freezingperfect progressive
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has been quick-freezingperfect progressive
Past
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quick-frozesimple
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had quick-frozenperfect
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was quick-freezingprogressive
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were quick-freezingprogressive
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had been quick-freezingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of quick-freeze
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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It has a stop-and-start rhythm of quick-freeze balletic poses and long pauses set against bursts of larger movements and loud footfalls.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
For faster freezing: Some freezers have a quick-freeze shelf that should be used.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2020
Now it’s core staff, hair-netted and suited up, spreading fat sea scallops across a mechanized belt and running them through two brine tanks and two washes and then a quick-freeze.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2020
Other items: lobster and last year's turkey preserved under quick-freeze patents, vacuum-packed coffee, dressing containing pecan nuts protected by a plant patent.
From Time Magazine Archive
He set up batteries of incubators and brooders, invested $80,000 in an eviscerating and quick-freeze plant.
From Time Magazine Archive
The North Pole, settling near Siberia, quick-froze the mammoths.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another option is to buy quick-frozen fillets, which are from fish caught and frozen immediately, she said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021
“You can buy individually quick-frozen shrimp from the grocery store, but there is a significant quality difference between fresh shrimp and frozen shrimp,” Morris said.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
That’s where LePage’s dream of processing plants comes into play—cooked and individually quick-frozen lobsters can be shipped worldwide with ease.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2012
He said the compounds migrate to the poles and then get quick-frozen and collect in craters, where they stay "in the permanent shadows."
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2010
Outshining them all was a bust of Augustus John, a shaggy, forceful bronze that seemed like a quick-frozen hunk of the old man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among many "quick-freezing" problems are how to preserve taste, appearance and nutrition values upon defrosting.
From Time Magazine Archive
The author also cites such wildly remote possibilities as quick-freezing incurables until cures can be found, administering rejuvenating shots of DNA and even duplicating an entire human body from genetically coded snippets.
From Time Magazine Archive
The quick-freezing boom, barely 15 years old, is growing fast.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have four quick-freezing plants, so their fish brings a higher price.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had heard of things like that on the quick-freezing fresh water of the lakes—small boats adrift crowded with men sitting upright in them, ice-coated, frozen, lifeless!
From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin
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