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tenderiser

tenderiser is the alternative spelling of tenderizer.

Meaning of tenderizer

Noun

tenderizer (plural tenderizers)

  1. Any substance added to meat, especially papain, before cooking in order to make it more tender.
  2. A form of mallet used to beat meat before cooking.
  3. A tool similar to a potato masher used for tenderizing
  4. A tool with nails or blades, that can be pressed on (not unlike a stapler) to puncture the meat.

Forms of tenderiser

pluraltenderisers

Questions about tenderiser

What is tenderiser the alternative spelling of?
Tenderiser is the alternative spelling of tenderizer.

Words near tenderiser in the dictionary

  1. tenderings
  2. tenderisation
  3. tenderisations
  4. tenderise
  5. tenderised
  6. tenderiser
  7. tenderisers
  8. tenderises
  9. tenderish
  10. tenderising
  11. tenderization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tenderiser (page history and authors); tenderizer (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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