Meanings
present singular third person winterizes · participle present winterizing · participle past winterized · past winterized · alternative winterise
- transitiveTo prepare (something) for winter weather.
Temperatures are expected to plummet over the weekend, and aside from grabbing a coat, experts say there’s some things you should do to winterize your home.
2021, Freezing Temps Are Coming; It’s Time To Winterize Your Home, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, December 31 2021Antonyms: summerize
- transitiveTo remove the saturated fats from (a vegetable oil) by cooling and filtering it, so that it does not become cloudy in the winter.
Some oils which are frequently winterized to produce salad oil are: refined and lightly hydrogenated soybean oil, cottonseed oil and some varieties of rapeseed oil. The continuous miscella winterizing process takes from 45 min to 1 hr to produce +15 hr cold test oil.
1990, David R. Erickson (editor), (World Conference Proceedings) Edible Fats and Oils Processing: Basic Principles and Modern Practices, page 103
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo prepare (something) for winter weather.
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winterize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/winterize
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