TENDERISE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they tenderise ... he / she / it tenderises

Past simple: tenderised

Past participle: tenderised

-ing form: tenderising

Meaning:

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

Example:

tenderize meat

Synonyms:

tender; tenderise; tenderize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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)