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TENDERIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tenderize mean?
• TENDERIZE (verb)
The verb TENDERIZE has 1 sense:
1. make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
Familiarity information: TENDERIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it tenderizes Past simple: tenderized
Past participle: tenderized
-ing form: tenderizing
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:
Context example:
tenderize meat
Hypernyms (to "tenderize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
tender (easy to cut or chew)
tenderization (the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it)
tenderizer (a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender)
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