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freeze-drying

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freeze-dry (frzdr)
tr.v. freeze-dried, freeze-dry·ing, freeze-dries
To preserve (food, for example) by rapid freezing and drying in a high vacuum.
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Noun1.freeze-drying - 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
lyophilisation, lyophilization
drying up, evaporation, desiccation, dehydration - the process of extracting moisture
freeze, freezing - the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid


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