antithickening

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adjective

Preventing or inhibiting thickening.

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Meanings

adjectiveantithickening (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePreventing or inhibiting thickening.

    Sometimes flour is lightly or heavily prebrowned for roux. This process adds flavor and color but destroys some of the thickening power of the flour; acidic foods also have this antithickening effect.

    1990, Lendal Henry Kotschevar, Short Order Cooking, page 95

Origin

From anti- + thickening.

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antithickening. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antithickening

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“antithickening.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antithickening. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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