chocolatize
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chocolatize (third-person singular simple present chocolatizes, present participle chocolatizing, simple past and past participle chocolatized)
- (transitive, biology) To heat (a substance containing blood) slowly until the red blood cells lyse, producing a brown, chocolate-like color.
- 2015 October 17, “Prior Inoculation with Type B Strains of Francisella tularensis Provides Partial Protection against Virulent Type A Strains in Cottontail Rabbits”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Due to difficulty culturing the WY-A2 strain in MMH broth, cysteine heart agar with 9% chocolatized sheep blood (CHAB) was used under identical incubation settings as the strains above.
- (transitive, informal) To add chocolate to.
- 1986, San Diego Magazine - Volume 39, page 126:
- But this rush to chocolatize anything edible hurts the psyche of bona-fide chocolate lovers who know that chocolate's true mission is not to complement other foods but to be the focus.
- 2001, Philip R. Craig, Vineyard Blues: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery, →ISBN, page 92:
- Because I didn't want chocolate hair, we ate in the shop, which, fortunately, had a good stock of paper napkins, since Diana was not too fastidious about her food and tended to chocolatize her face pretty well whenever encountering her favorite dessert.
- 2009, Drew Beechum, The Everything Homebrewing Book:
- The same stuff you use for chocolate milk can be used to chocolatize a beer. Use a half cup in the boil.
- (informal) To indulge by eating chocolate.
- 1980, Beverage Industry:
- CHOCOLATIZE your senses.
- 2008, Natalie Standiford, Dating Game #4: Ex-Rating, →ISBN:
- We've got Strawberry Banana Happiness in aTub, Mint Chocolate Love Substitute, and Intense Chocolate Brainwash to chocolatize your troubles away.
- 2013 June 13, “Marijuana Edibles: Wiz and Wavves' Space Cake Odyssey”, in Rolling Stone:
- It's better than eating straight chocolate – a really good way to eat your weed and not over-chocolatize.