defrost
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English
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[edit]Verb
[edit]defrost (third-person singular simple present defrosts, present participle defrosting, simple past and past participle defrosted)
- (transitive) To remove frost from.
- I have just defrosted the fridge.
- (transitive) To thaw something.
- Will you defrost the chops for supper tonight?
- (informal, intransitive) To recover from something tiresome.
- See you tomorrow evening; I'll have defrosted from my trip by then.
Derived terms
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[edit]to remove frost from
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to thaw
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to recover from something tiresome
Noun
[edit]defrost (countable and uncountable, plural defrosts)
- The removal of frost.
- 1953, Refrigeration Engineering, volume 61, page 531:
- But only recently has automatic quick defrost appeared on production models of domestic refrigerators.
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