quick-freeze
verb (used with object)
to freeze (cooked or uncooked food) rapidly, permitting it to be stored almost indefinitely at freezing temperatures.
quick-freezing
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present participleof quick-freeze.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Among many "quick-freezing" problems are how to preserve taste, appearance and nutrition values upon defrosting.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have four quick-freezing plants, so their fish brings a higher price.
From Time Magazine Archive
The author also cites such wildly remote possibilities as quick-freezing incurables until cures can be found, administering rejuvenating shots of DNA and even duplicating an entire human body from genetically coded snippets.
From Time Magazine Archive
The quick-freezing boom, barely 15 years old, is growing fast.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had heard of things like that on the quick-freezing fresh water of the lakes—small boats adrift crowded with men sitting upright in them, ice-coated, frozen, lifeless!
From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer
