transitive verb
-·dried·, -·dry·ing to subject (food, vaccines, etc.) to quick-freezing followed by drying under high vacuum at a low temperature: a freeze-dried product, as food, will keep for long periods at room temperature
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freeze-dry
transitive verb
freeze-dried, freeze-dry·ing, freeze-driesTo preserve (food, for example) by rapid freezing and drying in a high vacuum.
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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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Verb
(third-person singular simple present freeze-dries, present participle freeze-drying, simple past and past participle freeze-dried)
- To remove volatile liquid from a substance by sublimation (normally under vacuum) from the frozen state
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