unsalt

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ salt, compare Dutch ontzouten.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To desalt.
   • 1854, Philip Kurten, The Art of Manufacturing Soaps, Including the Most Recent Discoveries‎^[1], page 139:

     Making hard soap by the hold method without unsalting.

   • 2005, David Stewart, The Chemistry of Essential Oils Made Simple: God's Love Manifest in Molecules‎^[2], page 696:

     Otherwise we could unstub a toe, unshatter a broken mirror, unsalt the salty soup…

   • 2017, Charles Ranhofer, The Epicurean: The Classic 1893 Cookbook‎^[3], page 575:

     …saw off the knuckle bone and then unsalt the ham in a plentiful supply of water for twenty-four hours.