freeze-dry
Americanverb (used with object)
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freeze-dries,
present (3rd person singular)
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freeze-dried,
past participle, past
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freeze-drying
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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freeze-drysimple
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freeze-driessimple
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have freeze-driedperfect
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has freeze-driedperfect
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am freeze-dryingprogressive
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are freeze-dryingprogressive
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is freeze-dryingprogressive
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have been freeze-dryingperfect progressive
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has been freeze-dryingperfect progressive
Past
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freeze-driedsimple
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had freeze-driedperfect
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was freeze-dryingprogressive
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were freeze-dryingprogressive
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had been freeze-dryingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of freeze-dry
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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It’s an interesting trick, because in order for us to do anything, you don’t want to repeat or freeze-dry anything; why bother if you’re not going to shake it up?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
You freeze-dry it and you rehydrate it on the battlefield with drinking water, and that’s it.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2025
ReadyWise uses a common process: They freeze-dry food, removing as much liquid and oxygen as possible and then package it in airtight containers.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2022
Instead, recent messages have included an advertisement for Harvest Right, which allows consumers to freeze-dry their dinner, preserving it in preparation for “whatever the future may bring.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 7, 2017
The folks over at Perpetual Pet can freeze-dry your beloved pet in a familiar pose.
From Time ● Oct. 11, 2014
Jeff is an ordinary-looking man with blow-dried hair, a trim mustache, and thick-lensed eyeglasses that make his eyes look constantly startled, like those of the pets he freeze-dries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The final meal before that climb consisted of freeze-dried crabmeat, tea and Jell-O.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
One six-week clinical study highlighted in the review found that adults who consumed 25 grams of freeze-dried wild blueberry powder daily experienced increases in beneficial Bifidobacterium species.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 27, 2026
Three years ago, Prof Hartel noticed more small players competing for a share of the freeze-dried candy market, but now larger brands, such as Hershey, want in on the viral trend.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025
It’s finally freeze-dried to form ice sheets in a vacuum that are eventually broken to produce the final product.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025
I charged, and as the lion leaped to intercept me, I chunked a space food pouch into its maw—a chunk of cellophane-wrapped, freeze-dried strawberry parfait.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
That was over the summer, so he turned off the air conditioner, began freeze-drying bulk food purchases rather than storing them in his electric freezer, and started shutting off his lights more often.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
Bischoff’s specializes in a form of hybrid taxidermy, incorporating traditional techniques with the more new-fangled freeze-drying process.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
The coatings also kept the microbes alive during the freeze-drying process.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2023
Many of the Inca mummies discovered high on Andean mountaintops were preserved by freeze-drying, too.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023
About £8m has already been spent preserving and restoring the timbers, which has included freeze-drying the wood at the Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2023
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