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freeze-drying

freeze-drying is the present participle and gerund of freeze-dry.

Meaning of freeze-dry

Verb

freeze-dry (third-person singular simple present freeze-dries, present participle freeze-drying, simple past and past participle freeze-dried)

  1. (transitive) To remove volatile liquid from (a substance) by sublimation, normally under vacuum, from the frozen state.

Noun

freeze-drying (uncountable)

  1. The process of dehydration by sublimation for preservation or convenience; the removal of moisture from a frozen material using vacuum.

Synonyms of freeze-drying

Questions about freeze-drying

What does freeze-drying mean?
Freeze-drying means the process of dehydration by sublimation for preservation or convenience; the removal of moisture from a frozen material using vacuum.
What is freeze-drying the present participle and gerund of?
Freeze-drying is the present participle and gerund of freeze-dry.
What part of speech is freeze-drying?
Freeze-drying is a noun.

Words near freeze-drying in the dictionary

  1. freeze valves
  2. freeze-ahead
  3. freeze-dried
  4. freeze-dries
  5. freeze-dry
  6. freeze-drying
  7. freeze-frame
  8. freeze-framed
  9. freeze-frames
  10. freeze-framing
  11. freeze-out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: freeze-drying (page history and authors); freeze-dry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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