unfry

English

Etymology

un- +‎ fry

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪ

Verb

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.