DEFROST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does defrost mean? 

• DEFROST (verb)
  The verb DEFROST has 1 sense:

1. make or become free of frost or ice

  Familiarity information: DEFROST used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFROST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they defrost    ... he / she / it defrosts   
Past simple: defrosted   
Past participle: defrosted   
-ing form: defrosting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make or become free of frost or ice

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

de-ice; defrost; deice

Context example:

Defrost the car window

Hypernyms (to "defrost" is one way to...):

dethaw; dissolve; melt; thaw; unfreeze; unthaw (become or cause to become soft or liquid)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

defroster (heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane))

 Context examples 

If large amounts of undecayed matter were to defrost, decompose and release methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the impact on global temperatures would most likely be enormous.

(Alaska Shows No Signs of Rising Arctic Methane, NASA)