unboil

English

Etymology

un- +‎ boil

Verb

unboil (third-person singular simple present unboils, present participle unboiling, simple past and past participle unboiled)

1. (transitive) To reverse the process of boiling.
   • 2012, Frederick Bettelheim, William Brown, Mary Campbell, Introduction to Organic and Biochemistry, page 359:

     These proteins help a partially heat-denatured protein to regain its native secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures. Some denaturation, however, is irreversible. We cannot unboil a hard-boiled egg, for example.

Translations

to reverse the process of boiling

• Spanish: descocer (es)

Anagrams

• Blouin