Unsour
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To remove the sourness from; to make no longer sour. transitive
"He'd worked in the dairy industry for thirty-one years, recalling how in the past, when regulations were less stringent, they'd worked out how to unsour old cream, which they made into butter for domestic consumption."
Example
More examples"He'd worked in the dairy industry for thirty-one years, recalling how in the past, when regulations were less stringent, they'd worked out how to unsour old cream, which they made into butter for domestic consumption."
Etymology
From un- + sour.
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