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undersalt

undersalt verb: to season (food) with too little salt.

Verb

undersalt (third-person singular simple present undersalts, present participle undersalting, simple past and past participle undersalted)

  1. (transitive) To season (food) with too little salt.
    • We also learned we overcooked it, undersalted the water and often used the wrong shape.2007 October 17, Mark Bittman, “Serving Pasta? Forget What You Learned”, in New York Times

Forms of undersalt

third-person singular presentundersalts
present participleundersalting
past participleundersalted
pastundersalted

Origin of undersalt

From under- + salt.

Questions about undersalt

What does undersalt mean?
Undersalt means to season (food) with too little salt.
What part of speech is undersalt?
Undersalt is a verb.
What is the past tense of undersalt?
The past tense of undersalt is undersalted.

Words near undersalt in the dictionary

  1. undersacristan
  2. undersacristans
  3. undersaid
  4. undersailed
  5. undersalaried
  6. undersalt
  7. undersalted
  8. undersalting
  9. undersalts
  10. undersample
  11. undersampled

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