unfry
English
Etymology
un- + fry
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪ
Verb
unfry (third-person singular simple present unfries, present participle unfrying, simple past and past participle unfried)
- (transitive) To reverse the process of frying.
- 2001, Bruce Charles Posner, Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-garde Film 1893-1941:
- In one sequence, a light bulb in frying pan turns into an egg that, by the use of reverse motion, seems to unfry itself and leap back into the shell […]
- 2009 September 20, Fred A. Bernstein, “Buildings Easy on the Earth, and the Eyes”, in New York Times:
- Building a green house is about as easy as unfrying an egg.
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