calorize
verbEtymology From calorie + -ize.
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Dated To follow a diet that focuses on the number of calories in food.
- She too is calorizing. She will retain her flapper figure--- and starve herself to do it!1926, Pennsylvania's Health - Volume 4:
- Mr. Coffey does not tell us whether he accomplished this admirable stabilization of his avoirdupois by exercising, by calorizing, or by reading James Joyce.1928, Leonard Bacon, Joseph Parrish Thompson, Richard Salter Storrs, The Independent - Volume 120, page 135:
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- He will vitaminize and calorize you into gaining weight.1958, Peter Joseph Steincrohn, You can increase your heart-power, page 212:
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To provide information about the number of calories in (a food item).
- Candy calorized has endeavored to show a woman that she puts on no more pounds eating candy than she does eating something else.1932, The Southern Pharmaceutical Journal - Volume 25, page 240:
- Diet Plan: l3 to l4 days of completely calorized menus with the all-important basic four food groups included in each meal.1984, Restaurant Business - Volume 83, page 162:
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To make (food) with high-calorie ingredients.
- While calorized feeds for poultry were being developed, scientists were also looking into an improved milk replacer for calves.1959, Poultry and Farm Supply World - Volumes 36-37, page 17: