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CRISPEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crispen mean?
• CRISPEN (verb)
The verb CRISPEN has 1 sense:
1. make brown and crisp by heating
Familiarity information: CRISPEN used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they crispen ... he / she / it crispens
Past simple: crispened
Past participle: crispened
-ing form: crispening
... he / she / it crispens Past simple: crispened
Past participle: crispened
-ing form: crispening
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make brown and crisp by heating
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Context example:
crisp potatoes
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
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