freeze-drying - definition, thesaurus and related words from WordNet-Online

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Noun freeze-drying has 1 sense

freeze-drying, lyophilization, lyophilisation - a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes
--₁ is a kind of freeze, freezing; dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation

Verb freeze-dry has 1 sense

freeze-dry - preserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum; "freeze-dry the strawberries"
--₁ is one way to preserve, keep
Sample sentence:
The chefs freeze-dry the vegetables