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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tenderise.

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  • adjective made tender as by marinating or pounding

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Examples

  • My friends and I love the bikini diets - 4 cashew nuts and the juice from a freshly squeezed pomegranate found on a bank filled with butterflies for breakfast and a slice of tenderised loin meat cut from the shank of a pure bred unicorn for lunch.

    When did we become little girls? Ms Robinson 2008

  • Not that we did something as exotic as to dig a pit for roasting a pig, ours involved copious quantities of lamb forequarter chops, steaks the butcher tenderised and lots of sausages.

    At My Table 2005

  • Not that we did something as exotic as to dig a pit for roasting a pig, ours involved copious quantities of lamb forequarter chops, steaks the butcher tenderised and lots of sausages.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • Goldsmith sound like a piece of steak which had to be tenderised by being pounded before it was cooked.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Simon suggests that the new marriage trends have tenderised this generation.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • The restaurant's assistant manager, Ali Ahmad Esmail, told the paper that the burger patties were fat - and cholesterol-free, but he declined to say how the outlet tenderised the tough camel meat.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • The restaurant's assistant manager, Ali Ahmad Esmail, told the paper that the burger patties were fat - and cholesterol-free, but he declined to say how the outlet tenderised the tough camel meat.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • Not one person watching saw it coming, the second show had me tenderised by the mallet.

    TV Scoop 2008

  • A win on National TC over UNC BB and now # 15 UNC FB is taken down by the Turtle and tenderised a bit.

    WordPress.com News 2008

  • If I picked up the speed they were doing, I'd stack it on the first corner and end up at the bottom of the mountain all pummelled and tenderised in no time. just now, -0 / +1 "...

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2008

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