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unsalt

unsalt verb: to desalt.

Verb

unsalt (third-person singular simple present unsalts, present participle unsalting, simple past and past participle unsalted)

  1. (transitive) To desalt.
    • Making hard soap by the hold method without unsalting.1854, Philip Kurten, The Art of Manufacturing Soaps, Including the Most Recent Discoveries, page 139
    • Otherwise we could unstub a toe, unshatter a broken mirror, unsalt the salty soup […]2005, David Stewart, The Chemistry of Essential Oils Made Simple: God's Love Manifest in Molecules, page 696

Forms of unsalt

third-person singular presentunsalts
present participleunsalting
past participleunsalted
pastunsalted

Origin of unsalt

From un- + salt, compare Dutch ontzouten.

Questions about unsalt

What does unsalt mean?
Unsalt means to desalt.
What part of speech is unsalt?
Unsalt is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsalt?
The past tense of unsalt is unsalted.

Words near unsalt in the dictionary

  1. unsalinated
  2. unsaline
  3. unsalinized
  4. unsalivated
  5. unsalmonlike
  6. unsalt
  7. unsalted
  8. unsaltedness
  9. unsaltiness
  10. unsalting
  11. unsalts

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