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

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.

From BBC

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!

From Salon

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

From BBC

From full-body taxidermy to partial mementos — skulls, bronzed hearts or freeze-dried paws, for example — such services provide closure in ways that, clients say, traditional burials or urns cannot.

From Los Angeles Times

This venom gets freeze-dried and sent to CSL Seqirus, a lab in Melbourne, where it's turned into an antidote in a process that can take up to 18 months.

From BBC