freeze-drying

[ freez-drahy-ing ]

/ ˈfrizˈdraɪ ɪŋ /

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noun

a process for drying heat-sensitive substances, as foods, blood plasma, antibiotics, and the like, by freezing the substance and then subliming the ice or other frozen solvent in a high vacuum.

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Origin of freeze-drying

First recorded in 1940–45

Words nearby freeze-drying

free world, freewriting, freeze, freeze-dried, freeze-dry, freeze-drying, freeze-etch, freeze etching, freeze-fracture, freeze fracturing, freeze frame

How to use freeze-drying in a sentence

The quandary of whether to freeze eggs or not could become irrelevant overnight.
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While the beans are cooling and drying, melt the butter in a saute pan over medium heat.
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But with the outbreak of hostilities in mid-2011, all festivities were thrust into the deep freeze.
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To get the product from manufacturer to arm, the product is lyophilized (a fancy word for freeze dried).
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MAKE IT AHEAD: Assemble the pot pies completely, cover tightly, and refrigerate for up to a day or freeze for up to a month.
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This will often save the foliage from drying up, a happening which makes the plants rather unsightly.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
The case should at such times be opened for a few hours each day to admit the drying air.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
In any case, fresh pieces of drying paper must now be used, and on to these the fronds are placed.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
After that their track turned straight west again, and it was hard to follow, for the ground was drying fast.
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The flue from the engine is carried through the drying room and dries his leather.
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