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View synonyms for freeze-dry

freeze-dry

[ freez-drahy ]

verb (used with object)

, freeze-dried, freeze-dry·ing.
  1. to subject to freeze-drying.


freeze-dry

verb

  1. tr to preserve (a substance) by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of freeze-dry1

First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences

The food bucket is available for $79.99 and boasts 150 freeze-dried and dehydrated meal servings.

From Salon

To make the treatment more convenient, they said, the device can be freeze-dried for storage and easily rehydrated when needed.

To form the capsules, the researchers suspend freeze-dried yeast in water, then mix them with the polymer subunits.

The researchers 3D printed lines of a paste made from graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon, and then freeze-dried the graphene paste to form the holes in the final aerogel structure.

The mixtures were poured into molds, refrigerated, then freeze-dried to form cushioning foams.

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