freeze-dry

1. 1.

   preserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum

   “freeze-dry the strawberries”

   Broaderpreserve

   Narrowerlyophilize

Questions about freeze-dry

What does freeze-dry mean?

freeze-dry means "preserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum".

How many syllables are in freeze-dry?

freeze-dry has 3 syllables: free-ze--dry. The stress falls on "free".

Is freeze-dry a common word?

freeze-dry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.