freeze-dried

[freez-drahyd]

adjective

1. (of foods and beverages) preserved by means of freeze-drying: freeze-drying.

   freeze-dried coffee.

Word History and Origins

Origin of freeze-dried¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

The freeze-dried puffs are made with natural ingredients, including spirulina, paprika, vegetable juice, turmeric and fruit juice.

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From this bold declaration she unspools her thesis: The Constitution was not freeze-dried at the beginning but instead has bloomed and grown to meet the republic’s needs, as the framers foresaw.

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Therefore, most meals are canned, vacuum packed or freeze-dried, with fresh fruit and vegetables a rare luxury that can only be enjoyed when a spacecraft arrives with new supplies.

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Andrew Cuomo represented that tendency boiled down to its ugliest essence and then freeze-dried: Wake up and smell the bad Queens diner coffee, libtards!

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UK doctors are attempting to clear dangerous superbug infections using "poo pills" containing freeze-dried faeces.

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