uncrisping

Verb

uncrisp (third-person singular simple present uncrisps, present participle uncrisping, simple past and past participle uncrisped)

1. (intransitive) To become less or not crisp.
   • [The] metal [of the coach], jouncing on the track, massaged his behind and his pants, uncrisping, were as wet from the mangy dog as from the sweat pouring out between his legs.1978, Doris Schwerin, chapter 1, in Leanna,, New York: William Morrow, page 14
2. (dated, transitive) To stop contorting or tensing (a part of one's body); to cause to be no longer contorted or tensed.
   • When his miserable life is over they lay him out—that is, they pull his legs, and try to uncrisp his fingers,1858, George Augustus Sala, chapter 12, in A Journey Due North,, London: Richard Bentley, page 189

   Synonyms:

   relax, straighten

3. (dated, intransitive) To stop being contorted or tensed (of a part of the body).
   • She saw his fingers uncrisp, then grip the shelf again.1919, John Galsworthy, Saint’s Progress, New York: Scribner, Part 3, Chapter 3, p. 252

   Synonyms:

   relax

4. (archaic, transitive) To stop (something) from rippling or undulating.
   • Behold your Neptune, with his Trident there,
     Vncrisps the Billows, smoothing them like Glass;1683, Thomas Shipman, “An Hystorick Poem”, in Carolina, or, Loyal Poems, London: Samuel Heyrick and William Crook, page 61

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