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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tenderize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brushing such liquids on to the meat creates a crust that helps to tenderize it.
▪ First enzymes within the tissues of the animal carcass will modify tissues chemically and physically to effect tenderizing.
▪ Grinding beef to make hamburger is a means of tenderizing less tender cuts.
▪ The acid helps tenderize the meat.
▪ The key is in the cooking; no amount of marinating will tenderize a tough cut of meat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tenderize

1733, from tender + -ize. Specifically of food, recorded by 1935, originally American English. Related: Tenderized; tenderizing.

Wiktionary
tenderize

vb. (context transitive English) To make (something, especially meat) tender.

WordNet
tenderize

v. make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat" [syn: tender, tenderise]

Usage examples of "tenderize".

Knock it off and pay attention, Kate, or those rocks below will tenderize your body for the crabs.

On the second day they were cleaned in order to make them dilate and thus tenderize their otherwise rubbery flesh.

The gracious gentleman said that you should have stayed in your own country then, because he had kept the last man of Spain they had captured alive and in agony for four days before he finally died and they ate him, and he remarked that your liver would probably be no less tasty after you have been properly tenderized with torture.

Well tenderized by my entrenched troops outside the walls, the survivors fled back into the supposed safety of Corcaigh only to be shot and cut and stabbed and speared and clubbed down to almost the last man by di Bolgia and his condotta, looking for blood and finding it.

Twenty hours under the merciless ministrations of Hannn Mennus had tenderized his flesh.

What joy to feel the thwack of a seven iron on red feathers, the satisfying impact of balanced metal on poultry (suddenly silenced and somewhat tenderized for your trouble).

She set about tenderizing her chops, tried to figure out who she was really mad at as she beat the meat to within an inch of its beyond-tender life, before seasoning.

He was touched by the obvious sincerity in her eyes, but he had a feeling she was tenderizing him in preparation for the roasting to come.

In the end he had to pound her with his fists to give her any relief, as though he were tenderizing meat.