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unthawing en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) That does not thaw; eternally frozen.
   • Although the women found the picture of Jack in spike heels irresistible, their own feet, half frozen, thawing and unthawing, stung with such fierce poignancy that their humor was invaded by sympathy, and nobody laughed. "Here I was, broke," Marlis went on. "Knocked up. Which I did not expect, but which I halfway treasured and half resented […]" 1997, Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love, page 336:
   • So early, in truth, that in the days when tropical nature was to be found, where now lie eternal unthawing snows, one could cross almost by dry land from Norway via Iceland and Greenland, to the lands that at present surround Hudson's Bay. ca 1888, H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, Volume II, Anthropogenesis, pages 423—424
   • What fairer home than Earth's eternal hill Paved with unthawing snow, lit with the sun's Unwinking lamp, […] 1914, Rhys Carpenter, The Sun-Thief: and other poems, pages 6–7:

unthawing en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of unthaw
   form of unthaw