All freeze-drying synonyms
freeze-dry·ing
F f verb freeze-drying
- drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- wilt — to exercise the will: To will is not enough, one must do.
- sear — to burn or char the surface of: She seared the steak to seal in the juices.
- blot — If something is a blot on a person's or thing's reputation, it spoils their reputation.
- wither — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
- deplete — To deplete a stock or amount of something means to reduce it.
- bake — If you bake, you spend some time preparing and mixing together ingredients to make bread, cakes, pies, or other food which is cooked in the oven.
- shrivel — shrink, dry up
- wipe — to rub lightly with or on a cloth, towel, paper, the hand, etc., in order to clean or dry the surface of: He wiped the furniture with a damp cloth.
- sponge — any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
- dehydrate — When something such as food is dehydrated, all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it.
- kiln — a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, especially one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
- swab — a large mop used on shipboard for cleaning decks, living quarters, etc.
- parch — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- condense — If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
- harden — to make hard or harder: to harden steel.
- concentrate — If you concentrate on something, or concentrate your mind on it, you give all your attention to it.
- mummify — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
- desiccate — to remove most of the water from (a substance or material); dehydrate
- stale — not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- scorch — to affect the color, taste, etc., of by burning slightly: The collar of the shirt was yellow where the iron had scorched it.
- dehumidify — to remove water from (something, esp the air)
- towel — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
- freeze-dry — to subject to freeze-drying.
- soak up — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- torrefy — to subject to fire or intense heat; parch, roast, or scorch.
- wizen — wizened.
noun freeze-drying
- suspension — the act of suspending.
- cryonics — the practice of freezing a human corpse in the hope of restoring it to life in the future
- motionless — without motion: a motionless statue.