unfry

verb

unfry

verb

Etymology From un- + fry.

1

To reverse the process of frying.

  • 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:
  • 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:

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