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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unfry en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + fry.

Meanings

  1. (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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unfried Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unfried Tense=Past lexicographic
unfries Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
unfrying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic