unfry en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + fry.
Meanings
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(transitive) To reverse the process of frying.
Building a green house is about as easy as unfrying an egg.
2009 September 20, Fred A. Bernstein, “Buildings Easy on the Earth, and the Eyes”, in New York Times: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 […]
2001, Bruce Charles Posner, Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-garde Film 1893-1941:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unfried | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unfried | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| unfries | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| unfrying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |