tenderize
- v make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
tenderize meat
- Zalda says that two weeks of aging will tenderize the best meat, while no amount of aging can save the toughest.
- LIPSTICKDirected by LAMONT JOHNSON Screenplay by DAVID RAYFIElLipstick is less a movie than a marinade that the film makers obviously hope will tenderize.
- At hospitals in Boston and Chicago, doctors are using the extract (known medically as chymopapain) to tenderize slipped spinal discs, a treatment that relieves pain and spares .