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freeze-dry

American  
[freez-drahy] / ˈfrizˈdraɪ /

verb (used with object)

freeze-dried, freeze-drying

  1. to subject to freeze-drying.

freeze-dry British  

verb

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

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freeze-dry Scientific  

  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.

Etymology

Origin of freeze-dry

First recorded in 1945–50

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