unboil

English

Etymology

un- + boil

Verb

unboil (third-person singular simple present unboils, present participle unboiling, simple past and past participle unboiled)

  1. (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.

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