unboil
English
Verb
unboil (third-person singular simple present unboils, present participle unboiling, simple past and past participle unboiled)
- (transitive) To reverse the process of boiling.
- 2012, Frederick Bettelheim, William Brown, Mary Campbell, Introduction to Organic and Biochemistry (page 359)
- These proteins help a partially heat-denatured protein to regain its native secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures. Some denaturation, however, is irreversible. We cannot unboil a hard-boiled egg, for example.
- 2012, Frederick Bettelheim, William Brown, Mary Campbell, Introduction to Organic and Biochemistry (page 359)
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