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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender v
1: rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender; "puree the vegetables for the baby" [syn: puree, strain]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun or purée Etymology: French purée, from Middle French, from feminine of puré, past participle of purer to purify, strain, from Latin purare to purify, from purus Date: 1707 1. a paste or thick liquid suspension usually made from cooked food ground finely 2. a thick soup made of pureed vegetables II. transitive verb or purée (pureed or puréed; pureeing or puréeing) Date: 1928 to make a puree of

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pur'ee Pu`r['e]e", n. [F.] A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a pur['e]e of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also purée(purees, pureeing, pureed) 1. Puree is food which has been crushed or beaten so that it forms a thick, smooth liquid. ...a can of tomato puree... N-VAR 2. If you puree food, you make it into a puree. Puree the apricots in a liquidiser until completely smooth. VERB: V n

Moby Thesaurus

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