TENDERISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenderise mean? 

• TENDERISE (verb)
  The verb TENDERISE has 1 sense:

1. make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer

  Familiarity information: TENDERISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENDERISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tenderise    ... he / she / it tenderises   
Past simple: tenderised   
Past participle: tenderised   
-ing form: tenderising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

tender; tenderise; tenderize

Context example:

tenderize meat

Hypernyms (to "tenderise" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

tenderisation (the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it)

tenderiser (a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender)