freeze-dry

[freez-drahy]

verb (used with object)

freeze-dried, freeze-drying 

1. to subject to freeze-drying.

freeze-dry

verb

1. (tr) to preserve (a substance) by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum

freeze-dry

1. To preserve a substance, such as food, by freezing it rapidly and placing it in a vacuum chamber, where the water frozen in the substance evaporates through sublimation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of freeze-dry¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

Related Words

• bake 
• blot 
• deplete 
• drain 
• empty 
• evaporate 
• exhaust 
• sear 
• shrivel 
• wilt 
• wipe 
• wither