unfry

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ fry.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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unfry (third-person singular simple present unfries, present participle unfrying, simple past and past participle unfried)

  1. (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[1]:
      Building a green house is about as easy as unfrying an egg.