Meanings
verbunfry (third-person singular simple present unfries, present participle unfrying, simple past and past participle unfried)
present singular third person unfries · participle present unfrying · participle past unfried · past unfried
- transitiveTo reverse the process of frying.
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 Times1 more example
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
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APA
unfry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfry
MLA
“unfry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfry. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unfry,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfry.
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