unbake

present singular third person unbakes · participle present unbaking · participle past unbaked · past unbaked

1. transitiveTo reverse the process of baking.

   Okay, I can’t unbake that cake.

   2017, Karen Traviss, chapter 4, in Black Run (Ringer; 2), Karen Traviss, →ISBN, page 93

   2 more examples

   You can always continue to bake your dish, but you can’t “unbake” it once you’ve left it in the oven too long.

   1997, JoAnna M[argaret] Lund, “Six Ways to Stir Up Successful One Pot Dishes”, in One Pot Favorites […] (A Healthy Exchanges Cookbook), New York, N.Y.: Perigee, →ISBN, page 4

   When the Turritopsis medusa rejuvenates, muscle cells, for example, turn certain genes on or off, essentially unbaking the cells and reverting them to doughlike stem cells.

   2017, Juli Berwald, “Life’s Limits”, in Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 153