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CRISPEN
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they crispen ... he / she / it crispens
Past simple: crispened
Past participle: crispened
-ing form: crispening
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make brown and crisp by heating
Example:
crisp potatoes
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "crispen" is one way to...):
heat; heat up (make hot or hotter)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
