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uncooking

uncooking is the present participle and gerund of uncook.

Meaning of uncook

Verb

uncook (third-person singular simple present uncooks, present participle uncooking, simple past and past participle uncooked)

  1. (transitive) To undo the act of cooking.
    • You can't uncultivate anything, in the same way you can't uncook your food.2019, Andy Brennan, Uncultivated, page 65
  2. (slang, transitive) To repair (an MP3 audio file) that has been damaged ("cooked") by being converted through a text format and having line breaks applied to it.
    • Hi all! I have developed a freeware utility to uncook MP3's...1999, y2kilroy, “New Freeware Utility to uncook mp3's!”, in alt.music.mp3 (Usenet)

Questions about uncooking

What is uncooking the present participle and gerund of?
Uncooking is the present participle and gerund of uncook.

Words near uncooking in the dictionary

  1. unconvulsed
  2. uncook
  3. uncookable
  4. uncooked
  5. uncookedness
  6. uncooking
  7. uncooks
  8. uncool
  9. uncoolable
  10. uncooled
  11. uncooler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncooking (page history and authors); uncook (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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