Sekirov Dictionary

uncrisp

verb 4
adjective 4
forms 5

verb4

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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
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(old-fashioned) 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
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(old-fashioned) To stop being contorted or tensed (of a part of the body).
- She saw his fingers uncrisp, then grip the shelf again. — 1919
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(no longer used) To stop (something) from rippling or undulating.
- Behold your Neptune, with his Trident there, Vncrisps the Billows, smoothing them like Glass — 1683

adjective4

Not crisp.
Not possessing firmness and freshness or brittleness (especially of foods).
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Not quick, precise, accurate or well-defined.
- […] from time to time a sort of unhealthy almost-light leaked from the large uncrisp corpse of the sky, returning for a moment to our view the ruined landscape. — 1922
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(old-fashioned) Not curling in stiff curls or ringlets (of hair).
- His light brown hair fell, in thin, uncrisp locks, about his white, prominent temples, — 1855

forms

uncrisped · uncrisping · uncrisps · more uncrisp · most uncrisp

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