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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unfrost en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + frost.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To remove the frost or frostiness from.
    • All the firm's editors were there, all its executives, many of its authors, and only the rapid early rounds of trays of champagne could unfrost the formality that seemed to seize all these people who were so congenial in office surroundings and so ill at ease in evening clothes on an occasion of enforced merrymaking. 2011, Laura Z. Hobson, Consenting Adult:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unfrosting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unfrosted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unfrosted Tense=Past lexicographic
unfrosts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

defrost

Synonyms

thaw