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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tenderize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective made tender as by marinating or pounding
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Examples
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By the time the cops got there the bad guy was pretty well tenderized and I was worried about getting charged with assault!
Word of advice for 2012 convention planners? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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The conventional wisdom was that the moisture created a bit of steam that tenderized the meat, and since steam conducts heat faster than air, it speeds cooking.
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The tough, stringy gristle of the child psyche is tenderized, and, after prolonged broiling, at the maw of bedtime, child flesh goes down easy.
The Case Against Summer P.J. O'Rourke 2011
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Feeling sufficiently tenderized, I returned to my room, called "Trixie" after of course one of the horses on the estate.
Estate of the Wild Rachel Dodes 2011
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Feeling sufficiently tenderized, I returned to my room, called "Trixie" after of course one of the horses on the estate.
Estate of the Wild Rachel Dodes 2011
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Rocky Mountain Natural Meats in Henderson recalled the ground and tenderized bison after it was linked to sickening five people in Colorado and one in New York, the U.S.
Rocky Mountain Natural Meats Recalls 66,000 Pounds Of Bison Meat After Being Linked To E. Coli 2010
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At least 21 people in 16 states have been sickened by tenderized steaks from the beef recall we wrote about recently, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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His writing style is spare but also the equivalent of a blunt object wielding fiend who doesn't quit swinging until long after the victim is nothing more than over tenderized meat.
Eric Gaskins: Portrait of the Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir by Bill Clegg 2010
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He's thickened, a least for this role, which calls for him to be both hardened and tenderized, like a cheap steak under the meat mallet.
Scorsese Rules This 'Island' John Anderson 2010
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Underwater your eyes collapse and your feet touch decayed leaves and soft sand at the lake's bottom, the texture of tenderized flesh, maybe an intestine
Summer Is An Itch 2010
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